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Decisions, Rhetoric, and the Art of Choosing

PWR 1GRZ - Spring 2013 - Instructor: Zurowski, R.
Last Updated: 9-Mar-2015

A guide to resources for PWR 1GRZ: Decisions, Rhetoric, and the Art of Choosing. Topics include: how we make decisions and the factors that influence them, and their consequences.

Background/Reference Sources:

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

Blackwell handbook of judgment and decision making [electronic resource] / edited by Derek J. Koehler and Nigel Harvey.
Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
International encyclopedia of the social sciences [electronic resource] / William A. Darity, Jr., editor in chief.
2nd ed. Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA, c2008.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
The Oxford companion to the Supreme Court of the United States / editor in chief, Kermit L. Hall ; editors, James W. Ely, Jr., Joel B. Grossman.
2nd ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Green Library » Social Sciences Resource Center (non-circulating) » KF8742 .A35 O93 2005

Selected Searchworks Subject Terms

Try these Links to Searchworks searches, then use the limiters to see more topics choices. Select one catalog record to see the call number - which indicates the subject area, and links to more specific keyword and subject terms you can use in further searches.

Decision Making
Choice

notice additional subjects in the Topics limiters list: Social Choice; School Choice; Choice (Psychology); Rational Choice Theory; Pro-Choice Movement; College Choice; Career Choice; Free Choice; Consumer Choice; Managed Care Choice; Game Theory -- and more

Free Will and Determinism
Collective Behavior

Suggested Databases

Besides the selected general and subject-specific databases listed here , try these databases for Articles about Decisions and Decision Making

Sociology [electronic resource] : a SAGE full-text collection.
Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, [200-?]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
This Fulltext Sociology database is in addition to the Sociological Abstracts database, which is in the list of the subject specific databases (above)
PAIS international in print.
New York, N.Y. : Public Affairs Information Service, Inc., 1991-
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » Z7163 .P3 V.24 PT.2 2015
This database has articles on public policy and politics.
America, history and life with full text [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Industries,
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Add the database Historical Abstracts from the menu of databases within this group of databases to search historical aspects of decisions and decision making (America History and Life is limited to American History)