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.