Behavioral and Social Science:

50 Years of Discovery

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Publication Year:1986

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In 1933, President Herbert Hoover commissioned the "Ogburn Report," a comprehensive study of social trends in the United States. Fifty years later, a symposium of noted social and behavioral scientists marked the report's anniversary with a book of their own ...
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Front Matter	i-xii
Introduction	1-18	(skim)
The Ogburn Vision Fifty Years Later	19-35	(skim)
Measuring Social Change	36-72	(skim)
Uncertainty, Diversity, and Organizational Change	73-94	(skim)
Macroeconomic Modeling and Forecasting	95-110	(skim)
Public Statistics and Democratic Politics	111-128	(skim)
Deterrence in Criminology and Social Policy	129-152	(skim)
Choices, Values, and Frames	153-172	(skim)
Changing Views of Cognitive Competence in the Young	173-207	(skim)
Some Developments in Research on Language Behavior	208-248	(skim)
Visual Perception of Real and Represented Objects and Events	249-298	(skim)

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In 1933, President Herbert Hoover commissioned the "Ogburn Report," a comprehensive study of social trends in the United States. Fifty years later, a symposium of noted social and behavioral scientists marked the report's anniversary with a book of their own from the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. The 10 chapters presented here relate the developments detailed in the "Ogburn Report" to modern social trends. This book discusses recent major strides in the social and behavioral sciences, including sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, and linguistics.

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50 Years of Discovery

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