Download or read book How to Think Like a Social Scientist written by Thomas F. Pettigrew and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With examples drawn from throughout the behavioral sciences, How to Think Like a Social Scientist fosters careful, critical thinking about psychology and the social sciences. Throughout the text, Pettigrew encourages readers to apply newly developed critical thinking skills to the nature of theory, comparisons and control, cause and change, sampling and selection, varying levels of analysis, and systems thinking in the social sciences.