Perspectives On Behavioral Science
The Colorado Lectures
1st Edition
Published on 4. March 1991
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-0-8133-0844-9 (ISBN)
Description
This text attempts to capture a sense of the ferment and reappraisal taking place in the behavioural sciences today. The contributors focus on the new paradigms radically affecting the behavioural sciences and the contributions that behavioural science can make to our understanding of the larger problems facing society - peace, war, population and the environment. They foresee a promising future for the behavioural sciences, incorporating increasingly sophisticated and interdisciplinary approaches to illuminate not only ourselves but also our place in a changing world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-0844-9 (9780813308449)
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Content
Part 1 Behavoural science in perspective: perspectives on behavioural science, Richard Jessor; metaphysics and methodology, Rom Harre. Part 2 Views from the disciplines: mind as machine - the cognitive revolution in behavioural science, Herbert A. Simon; psychology and the decline of positivism - the case for human science, M.Brewster Smith; anthropology - ships that crash in the night, Marvin Harris; sociology - retrospect and prospect, Neil J. Smelser; toward a behavioural science of world politics, J.David Singer. Part 3 Behavioural science at the boundary: language and other cognitive systems, Noam Chomsky; health and behaviour - an evolutionary perspective on contemporary problems, David A. Hamburg; an uneasy partnership - law and the behavioural sciences, Stanton Wheeler. Part 4 Behavioural science and world problems - the social sciences and the population problem, Samuel H. Preston; a behavioural science perspective on the study of war and peace, Herbert C. Kelman; greenhouse gases, Nile snails and human choice, Gilbert F. White. Part 5 Conclusion: behavioural science - an emerging paradigm for social inquiry, Richard Jessor.