The Analysis of Change - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080581356X ISBN 13: 9780805813562

Publisher: Psychology Press, 1995

Synopsis

Continuity and change have been major concerns of the social and behavioral sciences -- in the study of human development and in the study of processes that unfold in various ways across time. There has been a veritable explosion of techniques for studying change over time which have fundamentally changed how we need to think of and study change. Unfortunately, many of the old precepts and beliefs are still among us. The field of methodology for the study of change is itself ready to change. Recently, there have been many analytic and conceptual developments questioning our cherished beliefs about the study of change. As such, how are individuals to think about issues and correctly analyze change? The chapters in this volume address these issues. Divided into two sections, this book deals with designs that analyze change in multiple subjects, and with change in single subjects and an interacting system. Papers presented in this volume are accessible to scientists who are not methodologists. The character of the papers are more like primers than basic treatises on methodology, written for other methodologists. It is time that people stop thinking in rigid ways about how to study change and be introduced to a range of many possibilities. Change, stability, order and chaos are elusive concepts. The pursuit of the laws of change must be approached in as flexible and creative a fashion as possible. This book should help to lead the way.

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John Mordechai Gottman

Edition details

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080581356X
• ISBN 13: 9780805813562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 542
• Editor: Gottman John Mordechai