1st Edition

The Use of Models in the Social Sciences

Edited By Lyndhurst Collins Copyright 1976
256 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in... Read more
Chapter 1 Models versus paradigms in the natural sciences, Mary Hesse; Chapter 2 The constructive role of models, Rom Harré; Chapter 3 Some models from catastrophe theory in the social sciences, C. A. Isnard, E. C. Zeeman; Chapter 4 Life with intelligent machines, Donald Michie; Chapter 5 The political uses of scientific models, David Holloway; Chapter 6 Integrative and disintegrative social structures in decision-making groups, Peter Abell; Chapter 7 ::, K. C. Bowen, G. Smith David; Chapter 8 The use of models in linguistics, John Lyons; Chapter 9 ::, Lyndhurst Collins;

Biography

Lyndhurst Collins