Lawful Roles of Facets in Social Theories

This chapter is an attempt to summarize some major substantive fruits for the social sciences of the systematic theory construction built on the foundations and continuing developments made by Louis Guttman, with whom I have been privileged to study and work for over a decade. The present chapter surveys results attained to date which, stimulated and guided by the facet-analytic approach, have led to substantive theory construction and the recognition of some laws of human behavior. The class of theories to be discussed is that based on regional hypotheses, where the space to be analyzed portrays a set of variables and their intercorrelations. A brief summary of these and other theories is given in Guttman (1980) as well, of course, as being dealt with in various ways in all of the other contributions to this volume.

[1]  S. Levy.  A cross-cultural analysis of the structure and levels of attitudes towards acts of political protest , 1983 .

[2]  L. Guttman.  What is Not What in Statistics , 1977 .

[3]  Louis Guttman,et al.  On the Multivariate Structure of Wellbeing , 1975 .

[4]  L. Guttman.  Social Problem Indicators , 1971 .

[5]  Louis Guttman,et al.  A STRUCTURAL THEORY FOR INTERGROUP BELIEFS AND ACTION , 1959 .

[6]  Z. Maimon.  Business studies and the development of managerial skills , 1980 .

[7]  Louis Guttman,et al.  The Guttman-Lingoes nonmetric program series , 1973 .

[8]  Louis Guttman,et al.  On the definition and varieties of attitude and wellbeing , 1982 .

[9]  Louis Guttman,et al.  Smallest space analysis of intelligence and achievement tests. , 1969 .

[10]  L Guttman,et al.  Worry, fear, and concern differentiated. , 1976, Issues in Mental Health Nursing.

[11]  Shlomit Levy,et al.  Use of the mapping sentence for coordinating theory and research: A cross-cultural example , 1976 .

[12]  L. Guttman.  A general nonmetric technique for finding the smallest coordinate space for a configuration of points , 1968 .

[13]  Louis Guttman,et al.  12 – “What Is Not What” in Theory Construction1 , 1982 .

[14]  Louis Guttman,et al.  The Structure of Attitudes toward Work and Technological Change within an Organization , 1976 .

[15]  L. Guttman,et al.  A new approach to the analysis of growth patterns: the simplex structure of intercorrelations of measurements. , 1965 .

[16]  L. Guttman,et al.  A theory of behavioral generality and specificity during mild stress. , 1976, Behavioral Science.

[17]  C. Spearman,et al.  "THE ABILITIES OF MAN". , 1928, Science.

[18]  S. Levy.  The cylindrical structure of political involvement , 1979 .

[19]  S. Shye.  Achievement Motive: A Faceted Definition And Structural Analysis. , 1978, Multivariate Behavioral Research.

[20]  Everett E. Davis,et al.  WISC-R, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Revised , 1975 .

[21]  L. Guttman,et al.  Structure and dynamics of worries. , 1975, Sociometry.