Human behavior and the social environment : a social systems model /

Chess, Wayne A.

Human behavior and the social environment : a social systems model / Wayne A. Chess, Julia M. Norlin. - Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c1988. - xx, 412 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.



Contents
Preface
Chapters
1. Introduction
2. A Social Systems Perspective
3. The Social Systems Model: Dynamics
4. The Social Systems Model: Components
5. The Social Groups: An Introduction
6. The Social Group: Theoretical Support
7. The Social Group as a Social System
8. The Social Group: Systems Dynamics
9. Introducing the Formal Organization
10. The Formal Organization as a Social System
11. The Formal Organization: System Dynamics
12. The Community: An Introduction
13. The Community as a Social System
14. The Community Problem of Child Abuse and Neglect: A Practice Application
Index

Includes bibliographies and index.

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Social service.
Human behavior.
Social systems.
Social systems--Mathematical models.

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