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Making It Count : the Improvement of Social Research and Theory.
This title reexamines and reconsiders the model of empirical research underlying most empirical work. The goal is neither a whitewash nor capital punishment, but rather it is to reform and mold empirical research into an activity that contributes as much as possible to a rigorous understanding of so...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1987.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Preface; PART ONE: CURRENT PRACTICES; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Selectivity; Chapter 3: Comparisons, Counterfactual Conditionals, and Contamination; Chapter 4: Asymmetrical Forms of Causation; Chapter 5: Variation, Level of Analysis, and the Research Question; Chapter 6: Control Variables; Chapter 7: More about Current Practices; PART TWO: TOWARD A SOLUTION; Chapter 8: And Now What?; Chapter 9: Rethinking Causality; Chapter 10: From Controls to Outcomes; Chapter 11: Further Suggestions.