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008			250312042014GB eng
020			_a9781317651864
037			_bTaylor & Francis _cGBP 47.99 _fBB
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041			_aeng
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072	7		_aJHBA _2bic
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100	1		_aHarald Mey
245	1	0	_aField-theory (RLE Social Theory) _bA Study of its Application in the Social Sciences
250			_a1
260			_aOxford _bRoutledge _c20140813
300			_a346 p
520			_bThis is an important account of the development of the ‘field-theory’ approach in the social sciences. Harald Mey concentrates on the writers from the 1930s to the present day who have used this approach to the study of the individual and of society, and gives a clear exposition of such ‘field-theory’ application in its many differing forms. In addition, the author shows how a concept which was initially useful in the physical sciences came to be used first by psychologists, and subsequently by sociologists and others in related disciplines, in their search for answers to the problems presented by the study of society. Mey describes how the use of the ‘field-theory’ perspective has fared when applied to specific areas of social research – education, personal relationships, group behaviour. He also compares the ‘field-theory’ approach to the study of societies with the structural/functional approach, and explains why he believes ‘field-theory’ has a number of advantages over the structural/functional approach, especially when it comes to the dynamic problem of social change.
700	1		_aDouglas Scott _4B06
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