Cumulative social inquiry:transforming novelty into innovation
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Guilford Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | c2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xiv, 338 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
9781593856533 (pbk : alk. paper) 1593856539 (pbk : alk. paper) 9781593858339 (cloth : alk. paper) 1593858337 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | C3 |
CLC: | C3 |
Call Number: | C3/S658 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-312) and indexes. Introduction -- On differentiation and specialization -- Disjunctions between social theory and quantitative measurement -- Explication of texts : a useful tool -- Components of cumulative social inquiry -- The chapters -- Cumulative social inquiry : theoretical paradigms, social research, and empirically based theorizing -- Scientific communities and theoretical paradigms -- Exemplars and theories -- Conclusions -- Linking quality and quantity -- Diachronic articulation : quantitative first, then qualitative -- Synchronic articulation -- Diachronic articulation : qualitative first, then quantitative -- Conclusions -- Building quantitative studies on the qualitative -- Conceptual frameworks -- Items for indexes -- Vignettes and factorial surveys -- Analysis plans -- Evidence-based policy -- Conclusions -- Qualitative and quantitative social structural theorizing -- A logic and vocabulary for structural theorizing -- Qualitative structural inquiries -- Quantitative structural inquiries -- Conclusions -- Statistical methods and process models -- Structural statistical methods -- Process models -- Conclusions -- Transforming novelty into innovation -- A theoretically informed, data-first strategy : cognitive dissonance -- A use-inspired strategy : collective action -- A theory-first division-of-labor strategy : postindustrial societies -- Theory-driven survey research on political participation -- Conclusions -- Conclusion. |