Sociology as a population science:
Goldthorpe, John H
Sociology as a population science: John H Goldthorpe - United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2016 - ix, 168 pages ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-161) and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Sociology as a population science: the central idea -- Individual variability in human social life -- The individualistic paradigm -- Population regularities as basic explananda -- Statistics, concepts and the objects of sociological study -- Statistics and methods of data collection -- Statistics and methods of data analysis -- The limits of statistics: causal explanation -- Causal explanation through social mechanisms -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology which focus on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations.
9781107127838 (hardcover) 9781107567313 (paperback)
Sociology.
Population.
Population.
Sociology.
Sociologi.
Befolkning.
301 / GOL
Sociology as a population science: John H Goldthorpe - United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2016 - ix, 168 pages ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-161) and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Sociology as a population science: the central idea -- Individual variability in human social life -- The individualistic paradigm -- Population regularities as basic explananda -- Statistics, concepts and the objects of sociological study -- Statistics and methods of data collection -- Statistics and methods of data analysis -- The limits of statistics: causal explanation -- Causal explanation through social mechanisms -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology which focus on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations.
9781107127838 (hardcover) 9781107567313 (paperback)
Sociology.
Population.
Population.
Sociology.
Sociologi.
Befolkning.
301 / GOL