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Crossroads of Social Science : the ICPSR 25th Anniversary Volume.

The essays in this collection analyze the successes and failures of the social sciences over the last few decades as well as on their future. The focus of the book is on generic problems, difficulties, and dilemmas in the social sciences that the contributors are uniquely qualified to articulate. Ea...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eulau, Heinz, 1915-2004
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Algora Pub., 2007.
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  • Crossroads of Social Science: The ICPSR 25th Anniversary Volume; Contents; About the Contributors; Preface; Introduction Crossroads of Social Science; Chapter 1 Toward Cumulative Knowledge: Theoretical and Methodological Issues; Chapter 2 A Strange Case of Identity Denied: American History as Social Science; Chapter 3 When Social Science Findings Conflict; Chapter 4 What We Know, What We Say We Know: Discrepancies Between Warranted and Unwarranted; Chapter 5 Research Life as a Collection of Intersecting Probability Distributions; Author Index.