S. Nowak

Understanding and Prediction

Essays in the Methodology of Social and Behavioural Theories

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Synthese Library 94
• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• 1976.
• Seitenzahl: 507
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm
• Gewicht: 894g
• ISBN-13: 9789027705587
• ISBN-10: 9027705585
• Artikelnr.: 21263834

Inhaltsangabe

I / Concepts and Indicators in Humanistic Sociology.- II / Verbal Communications As Indicators of Sociological Variables.- III / Meaning and Measurement in Comparative Studies.- IV / Comparative Social Research and Methodological Problems of Sociological Induction.- V / Causal Interpretation of Statistical Relationships in Social Research.- VI / Inductive Inconsistencies and The Problems of Probabilistic Predictions.- VII / Logical and Empirical Assumptions of Validity of Inductions.- VIII / Empirical Knowledge and Social Values in The Cumulative Development of Sociology.- IX / Cultural Norms As Explanatory Constructs in Theories of Social Behavior.- X / Role and Limits of The 'Functional Approach' In Formulation of Theories of Attitudes.- XI / The Logic of Reductive Systematizations of Social and Behavioral Theories.- XII / Values and Knowledge in The Theory of Education: A Paradigm for an Applied Social Science.- Index of Names.