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The growth of social knowledge : theory, simulation, and empirical research in group processes

Author: Jacek Szmatka; Michael J Lovaglia; Kinga Wysienska
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jacek Szmatka; Michael J Lovaglia; Kinga Wysienska
ISBN: 0275972135 9780275972134
OCLC Number: 48473928
Description: viii, 299 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Jacek Szmatka, Michael Lovaglia, and Kinga Wysienska.

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