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1st Edition

The Analysis of Social Interactions Methods, Issues, and Illustrations

Edited By Robert B. Cairns Copyright 1979

258 Pages

by Routledge

Description

First published in1979, The Analysis of Social Interactions examines advances in methodologies for studying social interactions and explores their implications. The book is divided into three parts. Part I, Design, Techniques, and Analysis , focuses on the methods themselves. Part II, Illustrations , demonstrates how these methods apply to areas of social development such as aggressive... Read more

Table of Contents

Social interactional methods: an introduction
Robert B. Cairns

Part I: Design, Techniques, and Analysis

1. Interactional designs
Ross D. Parke

2. Observing interaction: a confrontation with methodology
Marian Radke Yarrow and Carolyn Zahn Waxler

3. Behavioral acts: description, classification, ethogram analysis, and measurement
Marc Bekoff

4. The analysis of behavior sequences
N. John Castellan, Jr.

Part II: Illustrations

5. A performance theory for coercive family interaction
Gerald R. Patterson

6. The human infant in social interaction
Carol O. Eckerman

7. Play in domestic kittens
Meredith J. West

Part III: Summary and conclusions

8. Toward guidelines for interactional research
Robert B. Cairns

Part IV: Appendices

Appendix A: how to assess personality and social patterns: observations or ratings?
Robert B. Cairns and James A. Green

Appendix B: note on describing and analyzing interactional data: some first steps and common pitfalls
Roger Bakerman, Robert B. Cairns, and Mark Appelbaum

Editor(s)

Biography

Robert B. Cairns

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