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Behavioral and Social Science: 50 Years of Discovery

By National Research Council , Committee on Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences

Book information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
1986
ISBN
0309035880, 9780309035880
LCC
H62.5.U5
Open Library ID
OL10356860M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (30956249 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
312\308
Time added
2012-04-21 10:43:22

Description

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 behavioural scientists marked the report's anniversary with a book of their own from the Commission on Behavioural 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 behavioural sciences, including sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, and linguistics.

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