Humane Politics and Methods of Inquiry

This volume focuses on the contributions of Ithiel de Sola Pool to the development of research methods that deepen our understanding of human behaviour. It treats the analysis of communications, computer simulation, forecasting, network theory, and the social sciences in political contexts.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The Analysis of Communications
Editor's Introduction
1 Symbols, Meanings, and Social Science
2 Content Analysis and the Intelligence Function
3 Scratches on Social Science: Images, Symbols, and Stereotypes
Part II: Computer Simulation
Editor's Introduction
4 The Simulmatics Project
5 A Postscript on the 1964 Election
6 The Kaiser, the Tsar, and the Computer:
Information Processing in a Crisis
Part III: Forecasting
Editor's Introduction
7 The International System in the Next Half-Century
8 The Art of the Social Science Soothsayer
9 Foresight and Hindsight: The Case of the Telephone
Part IV: Network Theory
Editor's Introduction
10 Contacts and Influence
Part V: Social Science in Political Contexts
Editor's Introduction
11 Some Facts About Values
12 What Ferment?: A Challenge for Empirical Research
13 How Powerful Is Business?
14 Human Subjects Regulations on the Social Sciences
15 What's Next? The Intellectual Legacy of Ithiel de Sola Pool
Lloyd S. Etheredge
Index

About the author

Ithiel de Sola Pool

Summary

Ithiel de Sola Pool was a distinguished scholar of the political process, and one of the most original thinkers in the development of an integrated social science

Product details

• Authors: Ithiel De Sola Pool, Sola Pool Ithiel de, Ithiel de Sola Pool
• Assisted by: Ithiel De Sola Pool (Editor), Lloyd S. Etheredge (Editor), Ithiel de Sola Pool (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2000
• EAN: 9781560004011
• ISBN: 978-1-56000-401-1
• No. of pages: 327
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, REFERENCE / Research, Political science & theory, Behavioural theory (Behaviourism), Political science and theory, Behaviourism, Behavioural theory, Research methods: general, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Behaviorism