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The Logic of Social Research
Arthur L. Stinchcombe
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2020-07-08
主題
Social Science / General
History / General
ISBN
022678858X
9780226788586
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iP_vDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Arthur L. Stinchcombe has earned a reputation as a leading practitioner of methodology in sociology and related disciplines. Throughout his distinguished career he has championed the idea that to be an effective sociologist, one must use many methods. This incisive work introduces students to the logic of those methods.
The Logic of Social Research
orients students to a set of logical problems that all methods must address to study social causation. Almost all sociological theory asserts that some social conditions produce other social conditions, but the theoretical links between causes and effects are not easily supported by observation. Observations cannot directly show causation, but they can reject or support causal theories with different degrees of credibility. As a result, sociologists have created four main types of methods that Stinchcombe terms
quantitative
,
historical
,
ethnographic
, and
experimental
to support their theories. Each method has value, and each has its uses for different research purposes.
Accessible and astute,
The Logic of Social Research
offers an image of what sociology is, what it's all about, and what the craft of the sociologist consists of.