TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldthorpe,John H
TI  - Sociology as a population science
SN  - 9781107127838 (hardcover)
U1  - 301 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Population
KW  - Sociologi
KW  - Befolkning
N1  - 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
N2  - Provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology which focus on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations
ER  -