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Perspectives on Behavioral Science
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The Colorado Lectures
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The Colorado Lectures
Edited ByRichard Jessor
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1991
eBook Published 17 June 2019
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
Pages 328
eBook ISBN 9780429301469
Subjects Social Sciences
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Jessor, R. (1991). Perspectives On Behavioral Science: The Colorado Lectures (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429301469
ABSTRACT
The behavioral sciences—anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, geography, political science—have reached a turning point as we enter the decade of the 1990s. Freed from a strict emulation of classical science methodology, while benefiting from the remarkable advances in biology and the other "hard" sciences, scholars in the behavioral scie
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Part One|33 pages
Behavioral Science in Perspective
part Part Two|113 pages
Views from the Disciplines
chapter 3|16 pages
Mind as Machine: The Cognitive Revolution in Behavioral Science
ByHerbert A. Simon
chapter 4|17 pages
Psychology and the Decline of Positivism: The Case for a Human Science
ByM. Brewster Smith
part Part Three|68 pages
Behavioral Science at the Boundary
chapter 9|24 pages
Health and Behavior: An Evolutionary Perspective on Contemporary Problems
ByDavid A. Hamburg
part Part Four|89 pages
Behavioral Science and World Problems
chapter 12|31 pages
A Behavioral Science Perspective on the Study of War and Peace
ByHerbert C. Kelman
part Part Five|10 pages
Conclusion
