Sociology as a population science

Goldthorpe, John H.

Sociology as a population science [Texte imprimé] / John H. Goldthorpe - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016 - 1 vol. (168 p.) ; 24 cm

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Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Sociology as a population science: the central idea -- Individual variability in human social life -- The individualistic paradigm -- Population regularities as basic explananda -- Statistics, concepts and the objects of sociological study -- Statistics and methods of data collection -- Statistics and methods of data analysis -- The limits of statistics: causal explanation -- Causal explanation through social mechanisms -- Conclusion -- References -- Index

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