Usable Social Science /
"This volume is a one-of-a-kind contribution to applied social science and the product of a long collaboration between an established, interdisciplinary sociologist and a successful banking executive. Together, Neil Smelser and John Reed use a straightforward approach to presenting substantive...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Space and time : constraints and opportunities
- Some dynamics of cognition, judgment, and bias
- Sanctions in organizational and social life
- Groups, teams, networks, trust, and social capital
- How decisions are made
- Organizations and organizational change
- Economic development and social change
- Methods of research and their usability
- Social change, social problems, and demands for knowledge
- The production of knowledge in the social sciences.


