Perspectives On Behavioral Science: The Colorado Lectures - Softcover

Jessor, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367298171 ISBN 13: 9780367298173

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

The behavioral sciences―anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, geography, political science―have reached a turning point as we enter the decade of the 1990s. Freed from a strict emulation of classical science methodology, while benefiting from the remarkable advances in biology and the other "hard" sciences, scholars in the behavioral scie

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About the Author

Richard Jessor, PhD, ScD, is Distinguished Professor of Behavioral Science and Professor of Psychology, Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder where he has spent his entire academic career. He was an invited Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1995-96, and he received the Outstanding Achievement in Adolescent Medicine Award in 2005 from the Society for Adolescent Medicine. Jessor is, after 65 years, the longest-serving active faculty member at the University of Colorado. In May 2015, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, by the Regents of the University of Colorado.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367298171
• ISBN 13: 9780367298173
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336