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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. What's the Problem? -- 1. Sentiments and Acts: The Sequel -- 2. A Problem Found and Lost: The Temper of the Times and the Mystique of Science -- 3. Bits of Evidence -- 4. A Cumulative Science? -- II. Methods: The Credibility of Evidence -- 5. How Do We Know We Know? -- 6. Anyone May Lie a Bit, Cheat a Bit, and Try to Be Helpful -- 7. Speaking in Tongues -- 8. What Can You Believe Nowadays? -- 9. The Logic of Our Procedures -- 10. The Social Situation: Does Bad Company Cause Naughty Behavior? -- 11. Stimulus-Response Is for Animals (Symbols Are for People) -- 12. Rising Expectations and Later Disappointments: Research into the 1980s -- 13. Concepts and How Their Confusion Can Mess You Up -- 14. A Phenomenological Approach: Toward a Situational Sociology -- 15 Toward the Twenty-First Century -- References -- Index

Emphasis on measurement techniques can interfere with understanding how well particular social programs in their field work

This newly named and revised edition of Irwin Deutschers previous book, Accommodating Diversity, shares most of its original content but reframes the work with teachers and students in mind.