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.

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Sociology.
Population.
Population.
Sociology.
Sociologi.
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