John H. Goldthorpe (University of Oxford)

Sociology as a Population Science

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Produktbeschreibung

John Goldthorpe provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology, proposing that sociology should be understood as a 'population science' and develop as a science in a way which allows for a degree of continuity with the natural sciences, while preserving the field's distinctiveness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781107567313
• ISBN-10: 1107567319
• Artikelnr.: 43368946

Autorenporträt

John H. Goldthorpe is Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Sociology as a population science: the central idea
2. Individual variability in human social life
3. The individualistic paradigm
4. Population regularities as basic explananda
5. Statistics, concepts and the objects of sociological study
6. Statistics and methods of data collection
7. Statistics and methods of data analysis
8. The limits of statistics: causal explanation
9. Causal explanation through social mechanisms
Conclusion.