The Growth of Social Knowledge: Theory, Simulation, and Empirical Research in Group Processes

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The Growth of Social Knowledge: Theory, Simulation, and Empirical Research in Group Processes

The Growth of Social Knowledge: Theory, Simulation, and Empirical Research in Group Processes

Yazar	: Jacek Szmatka Michael Lovaglia Kinga Wysienska
Yayınevi	: Praeger
ISBN	: 9780275972134
Baskı yılı	: 2002
Sayfa sayısı	: 308
Ağırlık	: 0.66 kg
Stok durumu	: Var Stok detayları
Kargoya teslim	: Aynı gün kargo

This timely, comprehensive analysis of the latest advances in group processes research shows how cutting edge technologies, such as laboratory experiments, simulations, and complex systems combine with the rigor of cumulative research programs to change the way we see the social world. Group processes researchers study society scientifically, and have used sociological theory to build scientific, cumulative knowledge about the social world. Over the last 20 years, they have been extremely successful in advancing this knowledge through the reciprocal interplay of theory and experiment. The synthesis of such knowledge-uniting theory, simulation, and experiment-provides substantive explanations for social phenomena and predictions about events in complex social systems. This volume explores aspects of this synthesis from the perspective of group processes research. Providing deep analyses of methodological issues related to the synthesis of the theories, simulations, and experiments of group processes research, the authors also offer empirical examples of various studies that have been conducted. They investigate the ways in which theoretical research programs coordinate theory and empirical research in sociology to produce scientific progress and how computer simulations have evolved into an important component of theoretical research programs. This illustration of the relationships between theory construction and the method of theory verification advances our understanding of the field and may lead to a radical shift in the methodology and substance of modern social science.

	Prologue	1
1	Developing Social Knowledge: The Group Processes Research Tradition by Jacek Szmatka and Michael J. Lovaglia and Kinga Wysienska	3
Pt. I	Improving Social Theory	13
2	Three Faces of Explanation: A Strategy for Building Cumulative Knowledge by Henry A. Walker	15
3	Formalization and Inference by Geoffrey Tootell and Alison J. Bianchi and Paul T. Munroe	33
4	In Defense of Realistic Assumptions by Pidi Zhang	57
5	Positivism and Theory Construction in Group Processes by Kinga Wysienska and Jacek Szmatka	77
6	Expectations, Need-States, and Emotional Arousal in Encounters by Jonathan H. Turner and David E. Boyns	97
Pt. II	Using Theory to Guide Research	113
7	How Scope and Initial Conditions Determine the Growth of Theory by Robert K. Shelly	115
8	The Relation between Experimental Standardization and Theoretical Development in Group Processes Research by Lisa Troyer	131
9	Using Theory to Guide Empirical Research by Joseph M. Whitmeyer	149
Pt. III	Computer Simulations as Mediators between Theory and Research	165
10	Axiomatics and Generativity in Theoretical Sociology by Thomas J. Fararo	167
11	Some Philosophy of Science Issues in the Use of Complex Computer Simulation Theories by Barbara F. Meeker	183
12	Artificial Societies: Laboratories for Theoretical Research by Michael W. Macy and Walter Luke	203
13	The Strength of Weak Power: A Simulation Study of Network Evolution by Phillip Bonacich	219
	Epilogue	245
14	Theory, Simulation, and Research: The New Synthesis by Michael J. Lovaglia and Robert B. Willer	247
	References	263
	Index	289
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2 ay	2015.21 TL	4030.42 TL
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2 ay	2015.21 TL	4030.42 TL
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Tek çekim	-	3894.12 TL
2 ay	2015.21 TL	4030.42 TL
3 ay	1369.43 TL	4108.30 TL
6 ay	730.15 TL	4380.89 TL
9 ay	519.22 TL	4672.95 TL
12 ay	420.24 TL	5042.89 TL