Research Catalog

Title

The management of purpose / Lewis Anthony Dexter ; Martín Sánchez-Jankowski and Alan J. Ware, editors.

Author

Dexter, Lewis Anthony.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, ©2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sánchez-Jankowski, Martín, 1945-
• Ware, Alan.

Description

xvii, 264 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Dexter, Lewis Anthony
• Dexter, Lewis Anthony
• Social psychology
• Organization
• social psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

'Be not the first' -- A dialogue on the social psychology of colonialism and on certain Puerto Rican professional personality patterns -- Heredity and environment reexplored : specification of environments and genetic transmission -- Toward a sociology of the mentally defective -- A social theory of mental deficiency -- On the politics and sociology of stupidity in our society -- The sociology of the exceptional person -- Toward a sociological analysis of policy : relevance, attention, perspective -- What do congressmen hear : the mail -- The representative and his district -- Where the elephant fears to dance among the chickens -- Organizational and political climate -- Court politics : presidential staff relations as a special case of a general phenomenon -- Undesigned consequences of purposive legislative action ; alternatives to implmentation -- Causal imputation and purposes of investigation -- Role relationships and econceptions of neutrality in interviewing -- A note on selective inattention in social science -- The good will of important people : more on the jeopardy of the interview -- On the use and abuse of social science by practitioners -- Impressions about utility and wastefulness in applied social science studiesl

ISBN

• 9781412810340
• 1412810345

LCCN

• 2009016357
• 40017547206

OCLC

• ocn286472718
• 286472718
• SCSB-8806829

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library