Toward the Benefit/Cost Evaluation of US Government Applied Social Research and Social Programmes,and the Marginal Productivity of their Components, 1965–75

The main idea expressed in this article refers to - and elaborates on - the contributions of the Bureau of Applied Social Research and of its mentor and founder Paul Lazarsfeld. It underlines the importance of how, in social research, it is necessary to develop and maintain a multilevel and integrated approach to surveys. Using sociometry and contextual analysis in the design of surveys, enables us to connect three levels of observation/study - individual, relational and contextual - which are often kept isolated and separate in social research. A standard approach to surveys creates casual samples of individuals, as if they were isolated units living in social emptiness, and limits itself to conduct data analysis that creates relations between individual variables. This integrated multilevel approach is instead the solution proposed to overcome the atomism and micro-sociological reductionism of this standard approach to surveys.

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Benefit-Cost Evaluation of Prevention and Early Intervention Measures for Children and Youth in Sweden

Social Impact Investing Beyond the SIB ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-78322-2_7 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 177-194

Author(s):

Lars Hultkrantz

Keyword(s):

Early Intervention ◽

Cost Evaluation ◽

Children And Youth ◽

Intervention Measures ◽

Benefit Cost

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Applying Social Psychology to Law and the Legal Process

The Roots of Modern Psychology and Law ◽

10.1093/med-psych/9780190688707.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 44-60

Author(s):

Michael J. Saks

Keyword(s):

Social Psychology ◽

Decision Making ◽

Eyewitness Identification ◽

Social Research ◽

Jury Decision Making ◽

Judicial Decision Making ◽

Rich Variety ◽

Applied Social Research ◽

Tort Litigation ◽

Jury Decision

This chapter offers an overview of the early interweaving of law with social psychology and related social sciences on topics such as judicial decision-making, jury decision-making, eyewitness identification, procedural justice, persuasion, negotiation, psychological foundations of evidence, and the psychology of expert testimony and of aspects of the tort litigation system. Briefly discussed are the author’s two books—Social Psychology in Court and The Use/Nonuse/Misuse of Applied Social Research in the Courts—from the founding era that gathered together much of that already rich variety of work. The final third of the chapter describes some of the recent continuing work on a number of those topics.

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