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Constructing Social Theories

By Arthur L. Stinchcombe

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1987
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10685662 bytes)
Pages
159\159
DPI
200
Orientation
landscape
Paginated
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-08-23 10:31:12

Description

Constructing Social Theories presents to the reader a range of strategies for constructing theories, and in a clear, rigorous, and imaginative manner, illustrates how they can be applied. Arthur L. Stinchcombe argues that theories should not be invented in the abstract—or applied a priori to a problem—but should be dictated by the nature of the data to be explained. This work was awarded the Sorokin prize by the American Sociological Association as the book that made an outstanding contribution to the progress of sociology in 1970.

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