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A Set of Categories for the Analysis of Small Group Interaction
Abstract
Because problems are dimly 'felt,' because they are neither related to a general theory of behavior on the one side, nor rigorously connected with the categories and indices to be chosen for observation on the other, the results of the research can very seldom become part of the cumulative movement of truth which constitutes the growth of scientific knowledge. When concrete indices (and classifications) are not clearly related to the variables of a general theory of human behavior in society, they tend to be ad hoc. Under these conditions they are only with difficulty, applicable, i.e., translatable into another concrete situation by an investigator who seeks to confirm, revise, or disconfirm the previously 'established' proposition.1
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- Authors
- Bales, R. F.
- Venue
- American Sociological Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1950-04
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 257
- ISSN
- 0003-1224 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2333981369
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- References
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- 27.69
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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