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Making it count : the improvement of social research and theory / / Stanley Lieberson



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Autore: Lieberson Stanley <1933-2018.> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Making it count : the improvement of social research and theory / / Stanley Lieberson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1985
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages)
Disciplina: 301/.072
Soggetto topico: Sociology - Research - Methodology
Social sciences - Research - Methodology
Soggetto non controllato: boyles law
causality
causation
conducting research
data collection
empiricism
evaluating data
logic
nonexperimental data
nonfiction
political science
quasi experiment
research assumptions
research methods
research questions
research
sampling problems
science
scientific enterprise
scientific method
scientific theory
selectivity
social research
social science
sociological methodology
sociology
variables
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-251) and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Current practices -- pt. 2. Toward a solution.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 society. Without worrying about defining science or even determining the essence of the scientific enterprise, the goal is one that pools together logical thinking and empirically determined information. One of the fundamental issues to be addressed in this volume: Are there questions currently studied that are basically unanswerable even if the investigator had ideal nonexperimental data? If so, what are the alternative questions that can be dealt with successfully by empirical social research, and how should they be approached? In the chapters ahead, it will be important to keep in mind this doctrine of the undoable. Of course, one cannot simply mutter ";undoable"; when a difficult obstacle is encountered, turn off the computer, and look in the want ads for a new job-or at least a new task. Instead, it means considering if there is some inherent logical reason or sociological force that makes certain empirical questions unanswerable. There are four types of undoable questions to consider: those that are inherently impossible; those that are premature; those that are overly complicated; and those that empirical and theoretical knowledge have nullified.
Titolo autorizzato: Making it count  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35531-7
9786612355318
0-520-90842-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910778081203321
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