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Sociology as a population science: John H Goldthorpe

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2016Description: ix, 168 pagesISBN:
  • 9781107127838 (hardcover)
  • 9781107567313 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301 GOL
Contents:
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.
Summary: Provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology which focus on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations.
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Book Book Dept. of Demography Processing Center Dept. of Demography Non-fiction 301 GOL/S (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available DEM7302

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.

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