Contextualism and Understanding in Behavioral Science: Implications for Research and Theory (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275921217)

This book introduces contextualism, an emerging paradigm that has generated much interest and excitement in psychology, sociology, communications research, and other areas of behavioral science. Unlike behaviorism which tries to predict behavior based on a specific set of variables, contextualism asserts that human beings react and learn in a variety of situations and there is no single best kind of behavior. They challenge the man as machine view of behavior.

Author: Irwin Altman, Thomas Blank, Chrostopher Germer
ISBN-10: 0275921212
ISBN-13: 9780275921217
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 07/16/1986
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d