Smelser, Neil J.

Usable social science [electronic resource] / Neil J. Smelser and John S. Reed. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012. - ix, 423 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


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Social sciences--Research.


Electronic books.

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