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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: 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)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Ebook version :: No titleLOC classification:
  • HM585 .G65 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.
Action note:
  • Cataloging Notes: 20240516 STAMIU-0199STAMIU-0199
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.

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.

Cataloging Notes: 20240516 STAMIU-0199STAMIU-0199

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