Jacek Szmatka

Biographic Data

ID94776
NAMEJacek Szmatka
GIVEN NAMESJacek
FAMILY NAMESzmatka
SIGNATURESZMATKA J
AFFILIATIONSJagiellonian University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
H-INDEX2

  • The Growth of Social Knowledge: Theory, Simulation, and Empirical Research in Group Processes

    Jacek Szmatka, Michael Lovaglia et al.BOOKThe Growth of Social Knowledge2002

    This timely, comprehensive analysis of the latest advances in group processes research shows how cutting edge technologies, such as laboratory experiments, simulations, and complex systems combine with the rigor of cumulative research programs to change the way we see the social world. Group processes researchers study society scientifically, and have used sociological theory to build scientific, cumulative knowledge about the social world. Over …

  • Advances in Group Processes, Vol. 15

    E J Bienenstock, Edward J Lawler et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2001

  • Positivism and Types of Theories in Sociology

    Joanna Heidtman, Kinga Wysienska et al.ARTICLESociological Focus2000Cited by: 4References: 33

    The history, development, and progress of sociological theories can be interpreted in terms of continuous attempts to make sociology a scientific discipline. Sociological theory gradually advances methodologically. From the least methodologically developed theories (first genus), more methodologically advanced theories (second and third genus) evolve. The major criterion of this process is not the growth of empirical content, but the growth in te…

  • Status, Network, and Structure: Theory Development in Group Process

    P V Marsden, Jacek Szmatka et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1999

    Introduction Jacek Szmatka, John Skvoretz and Joseph Berger Part I. Theory Construction, Tests, and Strategies: 1. Building and testing multilevel theories Barry Markovsky 2. Theoretical research programs: a reformulation Joseph Berger and Morris Zelditch Jr 3. Use of computer simulation for theory development: an evolving component of sociological research programs Barbara F. Meeker and Robert K. Leik 4. Testing elementary theory for universalit…

  • Status, Network, and Structure: Theory Development in Group Processes

    Michael W Macy, Jacek Szmatka et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1998

  • Conflict in Networks

    Open AccessJacek Szmatka, J Skvoretz et al.ARTICLESociological Perspectives1998References: 13

    The study of exchange in networks has been extremely fruitful, generating much theory and empirical analysis and uncovering basic structural principles governing the distribution of power in exchange networks. However, exchange is only one type of fundamental relation between actors. Willer's 'Theory of Elementary Relations' proposes two others: coercion and conflict. There are several empirical studies of coercive relations but virtually no stud…

  • The Significance of Method

    Open AccessJacek Szmatka, Michael J LovagliaARTICLESociological Perspectives1996Cited by: 1References: 41

    While the importance of metatheory for theory growth has received some attention from sociologists, the importance of methodological preferences has been overlooked. We examine an influential model of theory growth in social science. This model focuses on theory. We show how recent work in the sociology of science suggests an equally important place for methodological preference in guiding social research. Bringing in method allows us to recogniz…

  • Exclusion, Inclusion, and Compound Connection in Exchange Networks

    Jacek Szmatka, D WillerARTICLESocial Psychology Quarterly1995Cited by: 5

    Elementary theory predicts that the distribution of power will vary as the type of connection varies. Previous research supporting that prediction has shown that power in unilateral monopolies is centralized when the central position is connected exclusively and decentralized when the central position is connected inclusively. Here we extend the theory to networks with compound inclusion-exclusion connections. The theory predicts that exclusion w…

  • Holism, Individualism, Reductionism

    Open AccessJacek SzmatkaARTICLEInternational Sociology1989References: 24

    Two versions of methodological individualism and three versions of methodological holism are critically analysed and, as a result, methodological reductionism is postulated. In ontological respects it assumes that social reality is not a homogeneous arrangement, that it is characterised by discontinuity of its properties, and that there exist areas in social reality called levels, which means that this conception is decidedly holistic. In methodo…

  • Reduction in the Social Sciences: The Future or Utopia

    Open AccessJacek SzmatkaARTICLEPhilosophy of the Social Sciences1989References: 20

  • Correspondence Principle as a Tool Explaining the Growth of Social Science

    Open AccessJacek SzmatkaARTICLEPhilosophy of the Social Sciences1983References: 8