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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Smelser, Neil J. (Auteur), Reed, John S. (John Shepard), 1939- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
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.