Deductive Theories in Sociology

Hobhouse L. T. Ginsberg M. Wheeler G. C. (1915): The Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples. London Monographs in Sociology.

Murdock G. P. (1949): Social Structure. New York: MacMillan.

See for example Stevens S. S. (ed.) (1951): Handbook of Experimental Psychology. Harvard University Press.

e.g. Madge J. (1953): The Tools of Social Science. London: Longman. Festinger L. Katz D. (1953): Research Methods in the Behavioural Sciences. New York: Dryden.

Katz D. (1951): Productivity, Supervision and Morale Among Railroad Workers. etc. Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.

Chapin F. S. (1947): Experimental Designs in Sociological Research. New York: Harper.

Parsons T. Shils E. A. (eds.) (1951): Towards a General Theory of Action. Harvard University Press.

Eysenck H. J. (1952): The Scientific Study of Personality. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Homans G. C. (1951): The Human Group. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Piaget J. (1926): The Language and Thought of the Child. London: Kegan Paul, quoted by Smith F. V. (1951): The Explanation of Human Behaviour. London: Constable.

Hull C. L. (1951): Essentials of Behavior. Yale University Press. (This is Hull's simplest book).

Deutsch M. (1949a): ‘A theory of co-operation and competition,’ Hum. Relat. 2, pp. 129–52.

Deutsch M. (1949b): ‘An experimental study of the effects of co-operation and competition upon group process,’ Hum. Relat. 2, pp. 199–231.

Von. Neumann J. Morgenstern O. (1944): Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour. Princeton University Press.

Argyle M. (1953): ‘The explanation of norm-formation in small social groups.’ Paper read to A.G.M. of the British Psychological Society. Abstract Quart. Bull. B.P.S. 20, p. 8, roneod.

Festinger (1950): Theory and Experiment in Social Communication. University of Michigan.

Schachter S. (1955): ‘Cross cultural experiments on threat and rejection.’ Hum. Relat. 7, pp. 403–40.

Horton D. (1943): ‘The functions of alcohol in primitive societies: A cross cultural study,’ Quart. J. Stud. Alcohol 4, pp. 199–320.

Rashevsky N. (1931): Mathematical Biology of Social Behavior. University of Chicago Press.

Durkheim E. (1895): The Rules of Sociological Method. trans. Solovoy S. A. Mueller J. H. 1938. Glencoe, Ill: The Free Press.

Durkheim E. (1897): Suicide. trans. Spaulding J. A. Simpson G. 1951. Glencoe, Ill: The Free Press.