Concept Of Communicative Action Research Articles

Education and Training of Transportation Engineers and Planners Vis-à-Vis Public Involvement

Public involvement in transportation investment decision making is central to accomplishing the vision of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. FHWA and FTA are striving to promote this objective in the face of several problems, some of which stem from the biased education and training of engineers and planners. The predominant emphasis of the majority of planners has been and continues to be on technical issues to the exclusion of communicative action and emancipatory interest, resulting in planners not being able to cope with the demands of participatory democracy. The basic concepts of communicative action that need to be incorporated in the education and training of engineers and planners to equip them to deal effectively with citizen participation are introduced. It is recommended that in the changed context in which transportation engineers and planners will have to operate, it is essential that they gain competency beyond just technical areas and be competent to cope with th...

Education and Training of Transportation Engineers and Planners Vis-à-Vis Public Involvement

Public involvement in transportation investment decision making is central to accomplishing the vision of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. FHWA and FTA are striving to promote this objective in the face of several problems, some of which stem from the biased education and training of engineers and planners. The predominant emphasis of the majority of planners has been and continues to be on technical issues to the exclusion of communicative action and emancipatory interest, resulting in planners not being able to cope with the demands of participatory democracy. The basic concepts of communicative action that need to be incorporated in the education and training of engineers and planners to equip them to deal effectively with citizen participation are introduced. It is recommended that in the changed context in which transportation engineers and planners will have to operate, it is essential that they gain competency beyond just technical areas and be competent to cope with the social, economic, and political dimensions of planning by gaining an understanding of the rudiments of communicative action. A blend of all three rationalities and interests (technical, communicative, and emancipatory) will have to form part of the day-today vocabulary and knowledge base of future planners in view of the importance of public participation in the transportation planning process. An appropriate graduate course on this topic is outlined.

Habermas, modernity and law

Introduction - Mathieu Deflem Law in Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action How Is Valid Law Possible? A Review of /f003Between Facts and Norms/f001 by J[um]urgen Habermas - David M Rasmussen Approaching the Production of Law through Habermas's Concept of Communicative Action - Pierre Guibentif Discourse Ethics and Human Rights in Criminal Procedure - Peter Bal On Reconstructive Legal and Political Theory - Bernhard Peters Postscript to /f003Between Facts and Norms - J[um]urgen Habermas Habermas, Modernity and Law - Mathieu Deflem A Bibliography

Approaching the production of law through Habermas's concept of communicative action

Approaching the production of law through Habermas's concept of communicative action

Modernity, Morality, and the Logic of Competing

The collectively irrational composite effects of athletes' self-interested choices are exemplified in the so called doping-dilemma. In top-sport this dilemma characterizes the change from local communality to global and commodified sports markets creating action systems which are predominantly success oriented. Value-rationally neutral action systems give rise to the dilemma, dutifull morality is replaced with self-interested behavior. There is no institutional practice of solving these conflicts by the actors themselves. Thus arises the weak legitimacy of the norms of the ideology of sport. The suggested solution is a contractarian approach which relies on Habermas' concepts of communicative action and discursive will-formation. However, the problem is that modem forms of life do not support the communality crucial to this solution. Specifically in top sport the problem is that self- interest is justified within the logic of competing. The rationality of competing does not support the cooperation needed for the proposed solution. The structural nature of the doping dilemma is therefore emphasized.

Towards the Post‐Corporate State?

Many studies of the relationship between the state and interest organizations conclude that the state is captured by sectoral interests. The state is not autonomous in a capitalist society. However, does the neo‐corporatist practice necessarily imply a captured state? The author examines the dependencies of the state on functional groups and proposes that corporatism in fact makes it a stronger and more autonomous state. Further, different criteria of autonomy are discussed. The public interest is explored through the concept of communicative action. Finally, the author tries to delimit the concept of autonomy in analysing some recent trends of development in Norwegian public policy.

Foundations of Societal Constitutionalism: Principles from the Concepts of Communicative Action and Procedural Legality

Foundations of Societal Constitutionalism: Principles from the Concepts of Communicative Action and Procedural Legality

Action theory, control and motivation: a symposium.

This symposium includes reactions to action theory from a variety of theoretical perspectives. <i>Eckensberger </i>and <i>Meacham </i>provide a framework for discussion, defining intentional action as a basic unit of analysis that includes being future-oriented, a free choice of means, potential consciousness of goals and means, and responsibility. <i>Boesch </i>argues that cognitive and affective systems do not develop in parallel, and that affects serve a communicative function. <i>Furth </i>reviews <i>Habermas’s </i>concepts of communicative action and the life-world, a concept referring to concrete interpersonal relations. <i>Sigel </i>suggests that goals for individuals develop from dialogues, for example, between adult and child. <i>Wertsch </i>and <i>Lee </i>argue that linguistic communication allows the incorporation of individual, microsociologi-cal, and macrosociological levels of analysis into a general theory of action. <i>Harris </i>criticizes action theory for neglecting motivations that remain outside of consciousness, and argues that individual goals or intentions are comprehensible only retrospectively and in the context of social discourse.