[PDF] Experiments In Social Process eBook

Author : W.R. Knorr
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9400991096

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practice, some of which is translated into the standard forms of public discourse, in publication, and then retranslated by readers and adapted again to local practice at self-selected other sites. Less may be left implicit, and additional personal and contextual information is carried, by the "informal" methods of communication which mediate local projects and international publication. But both methods of communication are screens as well as conduits of information. History and Background of the Volume When the planning of this volume began in the spring of 1977, it seemed a natural part of the mandate for the Yearbook. There had also been a number of more specific calls for deeper studies of research in social and historical context (3). These calls can be seen as giving permission and legitimacy to ask questions otherwise seen as irrelevant, or even disrespectful, and as attempts to develop new perspectives from which to ask and to answer them. The implied and expressed irreverence toward traditions and institutions of great respect may have prolonged this process of initial apologetics. In any case, in May 1977 the theme of 'The Social Process of Scientific Investigation' was proposed to the Editorial Board for Volume IV as "the heart of the subject. " That is, the ethnographic and detailed historical study of actual scientific activity and thinking at or close to the work site.

Author : Louis G. Tornatzky
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 148314982X

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Innovation and Social Process: A National Experiment in Implementing Social Technology discusses concerns, design, and methodologies of an experiment that deals with society's perception of innovation. Comprised of 11 chapters, the book first provides an overview of innovation, change, and problems of implementation; social process; and social innovation. The third chapter covers the methods of designing an experiment in organizational innovation, while the fourth chapter tackles participative decision making and innovation, and the fifth chapter tackles organization development and the implementation of an innovation. Chapter 6 deals with indigenous introduction and innovation; Chapter 7 on the other hand discusses promoting innovation communication through print. Chapter 8 talks about a case study of bureaucratic entrepreneurship, while Chapter 9 tackles site visits and innovation processes. The tenth chapter discusses perils of change agent training, and the last chapter provides an overview of the previous chapters. The book will be of great interest to researchers in the fields of psychology and sociology, since it provides a behavioral overview of society's reaction to innovation.

Author : Anol Bhattacherjee
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475146127

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This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of conducting scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioral research, and can serve as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to research readings in any doctoral seminar or research methods class. This book is currently used as a research text at universities on six continents and will shortly be available in nine different languages.

Author : Ann Oakley
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781565846203

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The feminist philosopher and social scientist shows how "gendering" has affected the social and natural sciences as she reconciles the long-standing dichotomy between the quantitative and qualitative methods and demonstrates the tandem use of both experimental and intuitive approaches.

Author : J. Aronoff
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317757580

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First published in 1985. This book presents a new way to ask an old question. Many fields have considered the nature of the influence that members of a group exert on the course of social events. Social science provides another way to examine this issue. Moreover, social science has a particular strength: It helps us to phrase questions more precisely than before, it encourages us to follow a line of rea­soning systematically, and it requires us to evaluate our ideas in light of a par­ticular kind of evidence. The authors want to use these strengths to explore systematically the ways that factors in the person and in the environment to­gether may shape the emergence of social behavior.

Author : George William Fairweather
Publisher : New York, Wiley
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 26,13 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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Examination of experimentalresearch methods in the field of social research in the USA - covers three phases of research in respect of social change, (a) the choice of methodology (incl. Statistical methods), (8) data collection and evaluation, and (c) dissemination of material, and includes a chapter on prospective research centres. Bibliography pp. 229 to 237.