Goldthorpe, John H <br/><br/>
Sociology as a population science: 
John H Goldthorpe 
 - United Kingdom:  Cambridge University Press,  2016 
 - ix, 168 pages ; 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-161) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology which focus on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107127838 (hardcover) 9781107567313 (paperback) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sociology.<br/>Population.<br/>Population.<br/>Sociology.<br/>Sociologi.<br/>Befolkning.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>301  / GOL