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The Elements Of Social Scientific Thinking
ISBN: 9781439082423 | 1439082421
Edition: 10thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/17/2010
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A concise introduction to the fundamental concepts of social scientific thinking and research, this classic text makes scientific thinking, research methods and statistics accessible to undergraduates at a common sense level. This text is intended for use in a broad array of introductory social sciences courses as well as the Research Methods course taught in Political Science, Sociology and Psychology.
| Preface | p. v |
| About the Authors | p. ix |
| Thinking Scientifically | p. 1 |
| Why Bother to Be Systematic? | p. 4 |
| The Role of Reasoned judgment and Opinion | p. 5 |
| The Role of Imagination, Intuition, and Custom | p. 6 |
| The Elements of Science | p. 11 |
| The Origin and Utility of Concepts | p. 12 |
| What Is a Variable? | p. 15 |
| The Hypothesis... MORE | p. 24 |
| The Scientific Method | p. 27 |
| The Many Roles of Theory | p. 29 |
| Strategies | p. 38 |
| Thinking Over the Problem | p. 40 |
| Reality Testing | p. 46 |
| Understanding the Results | p. 50 |
| Refinements | p. 58 |
| Hypotheses | p. 59 |
| Variables | p. 73 |
| Measuring Variables and Relationships | p. 78 |
| Measuring Variables: Levels of Measurement | p. 79 |
| Measuring the Significance and Representativeness of Data: Probability, Sampling, and Problems in Polling | p. 84 |
| Measuring Relationships Between Variables: Association and Correlation | p. 92 |
| Computers and Statistics | p. 113 |
| Reflections: Back to the Roots | p. 118 |
| Factuality, Reality, and Actuality | p. 119 |
| Morality and the Limits of Science | p. 122 |
| Of Scientists, Science, and Paradigms | p. 127 |
| Making Social Science Serve Human Needs | p. 129 |
| The Radicalism of Science | p. 132 |
| Science and Politics | p. 133 |
| Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America | p. 138 |
| Trust in Government: The United States in Comparative Perspective | p. 167 |
| Index | p. 192 |
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