Showing papers on "Social network published in 1972"

Family and Social Network; Roles, Norms, and External Relationships in Ordinary Urban Families.

Abstract: Bott Family and Social Network (1957) Hb: 0-415-26417-0 Chertok Motherhood and Personality (1969) Hb: 0-415-26418-9 E. Goldberg Family Influences and Psychosomatic Illness (1958) Hb: 0-415-26419-7 Kellner Family Ill Health (1963) Hb: 0-415-26420-0 Ryle Neurosis in the Ordinary Family (1967) Hb: 0-415-26421-9 GBP70.00 Winnicott and Hardenberg The Child and the Family (1957) Hb: 0-415-26422-7

The Future of Personal Responsibility.

Abstract: The problem of this paper is one of the most subtle and difficult in the whole of social dynamics. It may very well be insoluble with the present techniques of social science. The principal purpose of this paper, therefore, is to make clear the nature of the problem and the sort of things we might have to know if we were to solve it.

Social Science and the Problem of Rationality: notes on the sociology of technocrats

Abstract: our doings. Indicatively enough, Alvin Gouldner has recently published a voluminous statement on The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology. But this crisis is neither a coming one nor a specifically Western problem. It gradually becomes clear that Eastern European sociologists are now joining the majority of their colleagues here in seeking to develop the behavioral sciences in such a way as to gain a better understanding of people’s problems in order to better control their seemingly irrational behavior. Furthermore, more and

Is a non-normative social science possible?

Abstract: A distinction is made between the notion of a "value-free" social science and a normative social science. It is argued that all social sciences start with normative notions stipulations about the nature of man, about society and the relation between man and society. It is argued that stipulations mostly are technical norms. In this respect they differ from equivalent common-sense notions which are postulated to be rules of the social game of acquiring knowledge. The consequences of such an approach is discussed. It is proposed that making initial stipulations explicit and discussing the social relevance of social scientific theories, creates fruitful "cognitive dissonance" which is absent in a strictly "positivistic" approach.

The development of social indicators from content analysis of social documents

Abstract: If we agree that social indicators indicate or measure only within the context of a theory of social change, and if we further assume that theories of social change which deal only with social conditions, behavioral interchanges or transactions, and the material environment, are likely to be unsuccessful because they ignore the “mental” side of life, it follows that we will want our theories of social change, and the social indicators associated with them, to incorporate the cultural and group psychological aspects of social behavior.

Social Consensus and Social Change. A Study of Groups in Complex Organizations.

Abstract: : The report and empirical investigation was conducted to explore the possible effects of social consensus about organizational behavior of supervisors and peers under processes of planned change. The empirical findings support the proposition that social consensus is mediated between the effects of the social settings by which participants of constrained, and their popensity to practice participative style of leadership. The study presents a theoretical model for the overall network of contextual, structual, compositional and interactional variables. (Author)