عنوان

Social System Accounts :

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Social System Accounts :

[Book]

Linking Social and Economic Indicators Through Tangible Behavior Settings

by Karl A. Fox.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1985

(240 pages).

Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 44.

1. Behavior Settings as a Basis for Social System Accounts --;2. The Usefulness of Behavior Settings for Classifying and Describing Human Activities in a Community --;3. Behavior Settings and Objective Social Indicators --;4. The Classification of Behavior Settings in Social System Accounts --;5. The Classification of Roles in Social System Accounts --;6. The Classification of Stocks of Physical Capital and Consumer Durables in Social System Accounts --;7. The Classification and Delineation of Communities and Regions in Social System Accounts --;8. A Behavior Setting Approach to Microanalytical Simulation Models at the Community Level --;9. Some Broader Implications of Behavior Settings for the Social Sciences --;10. Social System Accounts Based on Behavior Settings: Some Next Steps --;References --;Appendix I. Behavior Settings, Ecological Psychology, and Eco-Behavioral Science: Some Annotated References to the Basic Literature --;Appendix II. Selected Publications and Unpublished Manuscripts by Karl A. Fox and Associates Making Use of Behavior Setting Concepts --;Author Index.

Behavior settings are the natural units of social activity into which people sort themselves to get on with the busi- ness of daily life--grocery stores, school classes, reI i- gious services, meetings, athletic events, and so on.

Social sciences -- Methodology.

Social sciences.

by Karl A. Fox.

Karl A Fox

[Book]

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