The growth of social knowledge theory, simulation, and empirical research in group processes
Title:
The growth of social knowledge theory, simulation, and empirical research in group processes
Author:
Szmatka, Jacek.
ISBN:
9780313013553
Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 299 p.) : ill.
Contents:
Developing social knowledge : the group processes research tradition / Jacek Szmatka, Michael J. Lovaglia, and Kinga Wysienska -- Three faces of explanation : a strategy for building cumulative knowledge / Henry A. Walker -- Formalization and inference / Geoffrey Tootell, Alison J. Bianchi, and Paul T. Munroe -- In defense of realistic assumptions / Pidi Zhang -- Positivism and theory construction in group processes / Kinga Wysienska and Jacek Szmatka -- Expectations, need-states, and emotional arousal in encounters / Jonathan H. Turner and David E. Boyns -- How scope and initial conditions determine the growth of theory / Robert K. Shelly -- The relation between experimental standardization and theoretical development in group processes research / Lisa Troyer -- Using theory to guide empirical research / Joseph M. Whitmeyer -- Axiomatics and generativity in theoretical sociology / Thomas J. Fararo -- Some philosophy of science issues in the use of complex computer simulation theories / Barbara F. Meeker -- Artificial societies : laboratories for theoretical research / Michael W. Macy and Walter Luke -- The strength of weak power : a simulation study of network evolution / Phillip Bonacich -- Theory, simulation, and research : the new synthesis / Michael J. Lovaglia and Robert B. Willer.
Abstract:
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 synt.
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