For the real environment is altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance. We are not equipped to deal with so much subtlety, so much variety, so many permutations and combinations. And although we have to act in that environment,... Essays on Strategy - Page 399edited by - 1996 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
| Walter Lippmann - 1922 - 448 pages
...source and corrective of wisdom. For the_real environment is altogether too big, too complex, jind too fleeting for direct acquaintance. ' We are not...permutations and combinations. And although we have to act in.jhat environment, we have to reconstruct it on a simpler model before we can manage with it. To... | |
| Pierre Bovet - 1923 - 272 pages
...discussion of this question by Walter Lippmann, in Public Opinion, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1922. " The real environment is altogether too big, too complex,...we have to reconstruct it on a simpler model before education necessarily includes one of democratic education. Kant was perhaps the first to lay this... | |
| Milton Kleg - 1993 - 334 pages
...difficult to find this very novel when in fact Lippmann, almost half a century earlier, stated: For the real environment is altogether too big, too complex,...reconstruct it on a simpler model before we can manage with it.3 If we are to appreciate fully an understanding of stereotype and its relationship to prejudice... | |
| Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann - 1993 - 282 pages
...of the world that people carry in their heads. To form a picture of reality is a hopeless task, "for the real environment is altogether too big, too complex,...reconstruct it on a simpler model before we can manage with it" (Lippmann 1965, 11). Fifty years later, Luhmann treated this subject under the caption "Reduction... | |
| William K. Tabb - 1995 - 423 pages
...features deliberately form a system. It is this system which I shall call Japan." ROLAND BARTHES 1 "For the real environment is altogether too big, too complex,...although we have to act in that environment, we have to construct it on a simpler model before we can manage with it. To traverse the world men must have maps... | |
| Daniel Sarewitz - 2010 - 250 pages
...depend on interpretations, paradigms, and mythologies to understand the world. Wrote Walter Lippmann: "[The] real environment is altogether too big, too...reconstruct it on a simpler model before we can manage with it. To traverse the world men must have maps of the world."43 The way that we view the world determines... | |
| C. C. Barfoot - 1997 - 612 pages
...modern societies. Lippmann argued that, with the advent of mass society, the social world had become altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting...combinations. And although we have to act in that [real] environment, we have to reconstruct it on a simpler model before we can manage with it. 3 He... | |
| Jon Hurwitz, Mark Peffley - 1998 - 278 pages
...imposing order on an "environment [that is] altogether too big and complex, and too fleeting. . . . We are not equipped to deal with so much subtlety, so much variety and so many permutations and combinations. And although we have to act in that environment, we have... | |
| DIANE Publishing Company - 438 pages
...experience demonstrates one of the operational commander's most significant barriers to change — an individual's beliefs and instincts. Those who study...reconstruct it on a simpler model before we can manage it.16 Lippmann's argument is at odds with the classic "rational actor" view of decision-making. This... | |
| Stephan Ganter - 2003 - 244 pages
...hat, letztlich nur durch Strategien und Heuristiken der Komplexitätsreduktion zu bewältigen: „For the real environment is altogether too big, too complex,...reconstruct it on a simpler model before we can manage with it. To traverse the world men must have maps of the world" (Lippmann 1922: 16). Stereotype als... | |
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