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Sociology as a population science / John H. Goldthorpe, Nuffield College, Oxford.
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Goldthorpe, John H.
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English
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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ix, 168 pages ; 24 cm
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Stokes Library - Wallace Hall (SPR)
HM585 .G652 2016
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Sociology
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Population
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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.
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ISBN
9781107127838 ((hardcover))
1107127831 ((hardcover))
9781107567313 ((paperback))
1107567319 ((paperback))
LCCN
2016301070
OCLC
934038837
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