Behavioral and Social Science: 50 Years of Discovery

Abstract

Behavioral and Social Science Fifty Years of Discovery -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL CHANGE -- NUMBERS AND DECISIONMAKING -- DISCOVERING THE MIND AT WORK -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL CHANGE -- The Ogburn Vision Fifty Years Later -- READING THE OGBURN COMMITTEE REPORT TODAY -- THE OGBURN VISION OF SOCIAL PROCESS -- SOCIAL CHANGE -- SOCIAL PROBLEMS -- DOCUMENTATION BY OBJECTIVE FACTS -- SOCIAL INVENTION -- APPLICATION BY POLICY CHANGE -- SOCIAL AMELIORATION -- A CONCLUDING NOTE -- References -- Measuring Social Change -- INTRODUCTION -- SOCIAL INVENTIONS -- Major Social Inventions and Their Consequences -- Human Testing -- Sample Surveys -- Reduction of Cultural Lags -- Statistics and Quality Control -- Cohort Analysis -- CONSEQUENCES OF SOCIAL CHANGE FOR MEASURES AND MEASUREMENT -- Concepts and Measures as Products of Social Life -- Social Change and the Organization of Ways of Knowing -- The Paradox of Method -- Consequences of Institutionalizing Measures of Changes -- Some Consequences of the Organization of Statistical Indicators -- THE CONCEPTUALIZATION AND MEASUREMENT OF SOCIAL CHANGE -- Individualistic Biases in Studying Social Change -- Lags in Measuring Social Change -- Need for an National Statistical System -- A SUMMING UP -- References -- Uncertainty, Diversity, and Organizational Change -- CENTRALITY OF ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES IN LARGE-SCALE SOCIAL CHANGE -- Rational and Natural System Perspectives -- Perspectives On Organizational Change -- An Ecological-Evolutionary Approach -- Organizational Diversity -- NICHE THEORY -- INSTITUTIONAL ISOMORPHISM -- DISCUSSION -- Macroeconomic Modeling and Forecasting -- ORIGINS OF THE SUBJECT -- A PERIOD OF EXPANSION -- CONTRIBUTION TO THOUGHT -- SOME NEW LINES OF DEVELOPMENT -- References -- NUMBERS AND DECISIONMAKING.