title: Making Sense of Behavior: The Meaning of Control
author:  William T. Powers 
description: " Everyone who has read this book and takes these ideas to heart has been strongly influenced by it." -- <i>Ray Jackson, Director of LeadershipEducation, Unisys University Leadership School</i><br /><br />"Here, finally, is a conceptual model of a human that acts like a human." -- <i>Sociology Professor Kent McClelland, Ph.D., Grinnell College</i><br /><br />"The great thing a researcher can do with Perceptual Control Theory...is to return to the fundamental faith of science." -- <i>Philip J. Runkel, Professor Emeritus, Education and Psychology, University of Oregon</i>
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  EXPLANATION 
  AND POWER 
  
  EXPLANATION 
  AND POWER 
  The Control of Human Behavior 
  Morse Peckham 
  A Continuum Book- 
  The Seabury Press • new york 
  
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  The Seabury Press 
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  New York, N.Y. 10017 
  Copyright © 1979 by Morse Peckham. All rights reserved. 
  No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in 
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  Printed in the United States of America 
  Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data 
  Peckham, Morse. Explanation and power. 
  (A Continuum book) 
  1. Meaning (Psychology) 2. Psycholinguistics. 3. Personality. 
  4. Culture. 5. Social institutions. I. Title. 
  BF455 P354 401 78-17604 ISBN 0-8164-9352-9 
  
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