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      The Colorado Lectures

      Perspectives on Behavioral Science

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      Perspectives on Behavioral Science book

      The Colorado Lectures
      Edited ByRichard Jessor
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1991
      eBook Published 17 June 2019
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429301469
      Pages 328
      eBook ISBN 9780429301469
      Subjects Social Sciences
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      Jessor, R. (Ed.). (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

      chapter 1|16 pages

      Perspectives on Behavioral Science

      ByRichard Jessor

      chapter 2|15 pages

      Metaphysics and Methodology

      ByRom Harré

      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

      chapter 5|45 pages

      Anthropology: Ships That Crash in the Night

      ByMarvin Harris

      chapter 6|16 pages

      Sociology: Retrospect and Prospect

      ByNeil J. Smelser

      chapter 7|17 pages

      Toward a Behavioral Science of World Politics

      ByJ. David Singer

      part Part Three|68 pages

      Behavioral Science at the Boundary

      chapter 8|26 pages

      Language and Other Cognitive Systems

      ByNoam Chomsky

      chapter 9|24 pages

      Health and Behavior: An Evolutionary Perspective on Contemporary Problems

      ByDavid A. Hamburg

      chapter 10|16 pages

      An Uneasy Partnership: Law and the Behavioral Sciences

      ByStanton Wheeler

      part Part Four|89 pages

      Behavioral Science and World Problems

      chapter 11|26 pages

      The Social Sciences and the Population Problem 1

      BySamuel H. Preston

      chapter 12|31 pages

      A Behavioral Science Perspective on the Study of War and Peace

      ByHerbert C. Kelman

      chapter 13|30 pages

      Greenhouse Gases, Nile Snails, and Human Choice

      ByGilbert F. White

      part Part Five|10 pages

      Conclusion

      chapter 14|8 pages

      Behavioral Science: An Emerging Paradigm for Social Inquiry?

      ByRichard Jessor
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