This timely, comprehensive analysis of the latest advances in
group processes research shows how cutting edge technologies, such
as laboratory experiments, simulations, and complex systems combine
with the rigor of cumulative research programs to change the way we
see the social world. Group processes researchers study society
scientifically, and have used sociological theory to build
scientific, cumulative knowledge about the social world. Over the
last 20 years, they have been extremely successful in advancing
this knowledge through the reciprocal interplay of theory and
experiment. The synthesis of such knowledge--uniting theory,
simulation, and experiment--provides substantive explanations for
social phenomena and predictions about events in complex social
systems. This volume explores aspects of this synthesis from the
perspective of group processes research.
Providing deep analyses of methodological issues related to the
synthesis of the theories, simulations, and experiments of group
processes research, the authors also offer empirical examples of
various studies that have been conducted. They investigate the ways
in which theoretical research programs coordinate theory and
empirical research in sociology to produce scientific progress and
how computer simulations have evolved into an important component
of theoretical research programs. This illustration of the
relationships between theory construction and the method of theory
verification advances our understanding of the field and may lead
to a radical shift in the methodology and substance of modern
social science.
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