1. J.S.Coleman
An Introduction to Mathematical Sociology
1964
Free Press
NY
P.F. Lazarsfeld, Mathematical Thinking in the Social Sciences. (1954) Free Press. Glencoe. Amitai Etzioni, A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations. (1975) Free Press. NY. R. Warren, Social Change and Human Purpose. (1977) Rand McNally. Chicago.
2. In particular see
EverettRogers
The Diffusion of Innovations
1967, 78 and 82
The Free Press
but especially the 1978 edition which contains an exhaustive box score analysis of literally thousands of communication studies Richard T. LaPiere, Social Change. Also (1964) McGraw Hill. New York. A Theory of Social Control (1954) McGraw Hill. New York. Robert A. Nisbet, Social Change. (1969) Oxford University Press. Robert Merton, The Sociology of Science. (1973) University of Chicago Press.
3. Jerome R.Ravetz
Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems
1971
Oxford University Press
New York