The composition of microcosms

✍ Scribed by Steven R. Brown

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 883 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0032-2687
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00155714

✦ Synopsis

Q methodology is employed for purposes of providing an instrumental base to Lasswell's concept of the continuing decision seminar. Policy-making is regarded as essentially subjective and value-laden in nature, hence the use of instruments to assist in the mieromodeling of complex decision processes--as embodied in decision seminars--must give centrality to human judgment. The factor-analytic procedures proposed are applied first to a life-history seminar. Suggestions are then made for the extension of these methods to future seminars, decision-making, and to the policy sciences more generally.