ABSTRACT

After an extended and detailed analysis in the last four chapters of the patterns, social sources, and consequences of conforming and deviant behavior in the use of human subjects, we will now provide some concrete examples of the abstract structures and processes we have delineated. We have seen how the dilemma of science and therapy, the competition structures of science in both the larger community and local institutions, socialization processes, and collaboration groups and informal interaction structures affect our aggregated data. How do such necessary and useful analytic structures reveal themselves in concrete individual cases? We hope to show how they do by presenting six individual case studies of research that clearly reveal the patterns we have discerned in our aggregate data. Each of the cases displays concretely one or more of the several analytic patterns we have already described in more abstract fashion.