ISBN:
9781412810340
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (281 p)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Management of Purpose
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Dexter, Lewis Anthony
;
Social psychology
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Organization
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Sociology -- 1 "Be Not the First" -- 2 A Dialogue on the Social Psychology of Colonialism and on Certain Puerto Rican Professional Personality Patterns -- 3 Heredity and Environment Reexplored: Specifi cation of Environments and Genetic Transmission -- 4 Toward a Sociology of the Mentally Defective -- 5 A Social Theory of Mental Deficiency -- 6 On the Politics and Sociology of Stupidity in Our Society -- 7 The Sociology of the Exceptional Person -- 8 Toward a Sociological Analysis of Policy: Relevance … Attention … Perspective
Abstract:
Part II Political Science -- 1 What Do Congressmen Hear: The Mail -- 2 The Representative and His District -- 3 Where the Elephant Fears to Dance among the Chickens -- 4 Organizational and Political Climate -- 5 Court Politics: Presidential Staff Relations as a Special Case of a General Phenomenon -- 6 Undesigned Consequences of Purposive Legislative Action: Alternatives to Implementation -- Part III Practicing Social Sciences -- 1 Causal Imputation and Purposes of Investigation -- 2 Role Relationships and Conceptions of Neutrality in Interviewing
Abstract:
3 A Note on Selective Inattention in Social Science -- 4 The Good Will of Important People: More on the Jeopardy of the Interview -- 5 On the Use and Abuse of Social Science by Practitioners -- 6 Impressions about Utility and Wastefulness in Applied Social Science Studies -- Selected Bibliography: Lewis Anthony Dexter (1915-1995) -- Index
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I Sociology""; ""1 “Be Not the First�""; ""2 A Dialogue on the Social Psychology of Colonialism and on Certain Puerto Rican Professional Personality Patterns""; ""3 Heredity and Environment Reexplored: Specifi cation of Environments and Genetic Transmission""; ""4 Toward a Sociology of the Mentally Defective""; ""5 A Social Theory of Mental Deficiency""; ""6 On the Politics and Sociology of Stupidity in Our Society""; ""7 The Sociology of the Exceptional Person""
Description / Table of Contents:
""8 Toward a Sociological Analysis of Policy: Relevance � Attention � Perspective""""Part II Political Science""; ""1 What Do Congressmen Hear: The Mail""; ""2 The Representative and His District""; ""3 Where the Elephant Fears to Dance among the Chickens""; ""4 Organizational and Political Climate""; ""5 Court Politics: Presidential Staff Relations as a Special Case of a General Phenomenon""; ""6 Undesigned Consequences of Purposive Legislative Action: Alternatives to Implementation""; ""Part III Practicing Social Sciences""; ""1 Causal Imputation and Purposes of Investigation""
Description / Table of Contents:
""2 Role Relationships and Conceptions of Neutrality in Interviewing""""3 A Note on Selective Inattention in Social Science""; ""4 The Good Will of Important People: More on the Jeopardy of the Interview""; ""5 On the Use and Abuse of Social Science by Practitioners""; ""6 Impressions about Utility and Wastefulness in Applied Social Science Studies""; ""Selected Bibliography: Lewis Anthony Dexter (1915-1995)""; ""Index""
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