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Sociology as a population science /
Goldthorpe, John H.,
Sociology as a population science / John H. Goldthorpe, Nuffield College, Oxford. - ix, 168 pages ; 24 cm
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) 1107127831 (hardcover) 9781107567313 (paperback) 1107567319 (paperback)
2016301070
GBB5E8862 bnb
Sociology.
Population.
Population.
Sociology.
Sociologi.
Befolkning.
HM585 / .G653 2016
301
Sociology as a population science / John H. Goldthorpe, Nuffield College, Oxford. - ix, 168 pages ; 24 cm
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) 1107127831 (hardcover) 9781107567313 (paperback) 1107567319 (paperback)
2016301070
GBB5E8862 bnb
Sociology.
Population.
Population.
Sociology.
Sociologi.
Befolkning.
HM585 / .G653 2016
301