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

Author
Goldthorpe, John H. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Description
ix, 168 pages ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    Provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology which focus on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-161) and index.
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781107127838 ((hardcover))
    • 1107127831 ((hardcover))
    • 9781107567313 ((paperback))
    • 1107567319 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2016301070
    OCLC
    934038837
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