Nature of Social Science (Harbinger Books)
George Caspar Homans (1910-1989) an American sociologist, was a leading theorist in developing testable hypotheses and explanations about fundamental social processes in small groups.George Homans was born August 11, 1910, in Boston, Massachusetts, the eldest child of Robert Homans, a lawyer and a fellow of Harvard Corporation, and of Abigail Adams Homans, a descendant of President John Adams. He married Nancy Parshall Cooper in 1941.Homans' books included anIntroduction to Pareto: His Sociology,with C. P. Curtis (1934);English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century(1941);The Human Group(1950);Marriage, Authority and Final Causes,with D. M. Schneider (1955);Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms(1961, 1974);Sentiments and Activities(1962);The Nature of Social Science(1967);Coming to My Senses: the Autobiography of a Sociologist(1984).