Sociology as a population science / John H. Goldthorpe, Nuffield College, Oxford.

By:

Goldthorpe, John H [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016Description: ix, 168 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781107127838 (hardcover)
1107127831 (hardcover)
9781107567313 (paperback)
1107567319 (paperback)

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Additional physical formats: Ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:

301 23

LOC classification:

HM585 .G653 2016

Contents:

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.

Summary: Provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology which focus on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-161) and 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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