Nature of Social Science

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 an Introduction 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).Homans, George C. is the author of 'Nature of Social Science', published 1967 under ISBN 9780156654258 and ISBN 0156654253.