Elements of Social Scientific Thinking

Name: Elements of Social Scientific Thinking
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ISBN: 9781439082423

ISBN-10: 1439082421

ISBN-13: 9781439082423

Edition: 10th 2011

Authors: Kenneth R. Hoover, Todd Donovan

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List price: $95.95
Edition: 10th
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 2/17/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Preface


About the Authors



Thinking Scientifically


Why Bother to Be Systematic?


The Role of Reasoned judgment and Opinion


The Role of Imagination, Intuition, and Custom



The Elements of Science


The Origin and Utility of Concepts


What Is a Variable?


The Hypothesis


The Scientific Method


The Many Roles of Theory



Strategies


Thinking Over the Problem


Reality Testing


Understanding the Results



Refinements


Hypotheses


Variables



Measuring Variables and Relationships


Measuring Variables: Levels of Measurement


Measuring the Significance and Representativeness of Data: Probability, Sampling, and Problems in Polling


Measuring Relationships Between Variables: Association and Correlation


Computers and Statistics



Reflections: Back to the Roots


Factuality, Reality, and Actuality


Morality and the Limits of Science


Of Scientists, Science, and Paradigms


Making Social Science Serve Human Needs


The Radicalism of Science


Science and Politics



Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America



Trust in Government: The United States in Comparative Perspective


Index