Screen LibraryPioneers of sociological science : statistical foundations and the theory of action /
"The idea for the present work came to me, perhaps appropriately, on April Fools' Day, 2017, at the conclusion of a meeting in Cologne of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility. Some months previously, I had published a book,...
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"The idea for the present work came to me, perhaps appropriately, on April Fools' Day, 2017, at the conclusion of a meeting in Cologne of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility. Some months previously, I had published a book, Sociology as a Population Science, in which my main concern was, as I put it (2016: 2), 'not to propose to sociologists how they should conceive of and practise their subject' but rather 'to suggest a way in which a fuller and more explicit rationale than has hitherto been available might be provided for what a large and steadily growing number of sociologists already do - although, perhaps, without a great deal of reflection on the matter'. What I argued was that most of those who shared in the goal of developing sociology as a science were in effect pursuing sociology as a population science, in a sense that I sought to explain. What was essentially involved was studying human populations across time and place by abstracting from the particular histories and attributes of their individual members in all their variability in order to focus on the - probabilistic rather than law-like - regularities in social life that were the properties of these populations themselves"-- |
| Carrier Form: | x, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-326) and index. |
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9781108927833 1108927831 9781108832151 1108832156 9781108935166 1108935168 |
| Index Number: | HM435 |
| CLC: | C91-09 |
| Call Number: | C91-09/G624 |
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The beginnings : Graunt and Halley -- Quetelet and his critics -- The English statisticians ; Galton, Pearson and Yule ; The English statisticians and the Cambridge economists -- The sample survey specialists : Kaier, Bowley and Neyman -- Weber and the concept of action -- From Columbia to Chicago : Ogburn and Sociology as Science -- From Chicago back to Columbia : Stouffer, Lazarsfeld and Merton ; The missing link? / Duncan and Sociology as a population Science -- The return to the concept of action and micro-macro relations : Coleman and Boudon -- |