Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- References
- Index
- References
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- References
- Index
- References
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- Sociology as a Population Science , pp. 141 - 161Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015