Behavior Settings : A Revision and Extension of Roger G. Barker’s “Ecological Psychology” / Phil Schoggen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schoggen, Phil, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (436 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Forty years of collaboration in research and writing with Roger G. Barker have uniquely qualified the author to revise Barker's classic Ecological Psychology: Concepts and Methods for Studying the Environment of Human Behavior (1968). The author's primary goal has been to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive description of behavior setting theory and method with sufficient detail and illustration to guide new research applications. Barker's presentation of theory and method has been preserved except where changes were required to reflect the advances reported in Barker and Schoggen's Qualities of Community Life (1973). The lengthy report in Ecological Psychology of empirical findings from the study of behavior settings the town of Midwest has been replaced by extensive summaries of the currently available reports of research applications of behavior setting theory. Four new chapters have been added: a chapter be economist Karl A. Fox on the use of behavior settings in social system accounting, an article by Barker on behavior settings that have figured prominently in his career, a chapter that discusses behavior settings in relation to a number of other concepts in social science and the field of environment and behavior, and a final chapter on the need for an eco-behavioral science taken from two papers by Barker.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

1. Introduction

2. The Ecological Environment

3. The Defining Properties of Behavior Settings

4. Identifying Behavior Settings

5. Measuring Habitat Extent and Habitat Variety

6. Habitat Variables I: Relationships Between and Among Settings

7. Habitat Variables II: Attributes of Individual Settings

8. A Theory of Behavior Settings

9. Behavior Setting Theory Applied to Underpopulated Settings

10. Evidence from Empirical Studies of Underpopulated Behavior Settings

11. Overview of Selected Empirical Applications

12. Behavior Settings and Social Systems Accounting by Karl A. Fox

13. Behavior Settings in Relation to Other Concepts

14. Settings of a Professional Lifetime by Roger G. Barker

15. The Need for an Eco-Behavioral Science

Appendix: Occupancy Time Code

Glossary

References

Name Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5036-2314-9

OCLC:

1294424794