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Theory construction and model-building skills : a practical guide for social scientists
- Title
- Theory construction and model-building skills : a practical guide for social scientists / James Jaccard, Jacob Jacoby.
- Author
- Jaccard, James.
- Publication
- New York : Guilford Press, c2010.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Jacoby, Jacob.
- Description
- xx, 391 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Methodology in the social sciences
- Uniform Title
- Methodology in the social sciences.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-378) and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The nature of understanding -- Science as an approach to understanding -- Creativity and the generation of ideas -- Focusing concepts -- Clarifying relationships using thought experiments -- Causal models -- Mathematical modeling -- Simulation as a theory development method -- Grounded and emergent theory -- Historically influential systems of thought -- Reading and writing about theories -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFF 14-182
- ISBN
- 9781606233399 (pbk.)
- 1606233394 (pbk.)
- 9781606233405 (hbk.)
- 1606233408 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2009040114
- OCLC
- 455416998
- Author
- Jaccard, James.
- Title
- Theory construction and model-building skills : a practical guide for social scientists / James Jaccard, Jacob Jacoby.
- Imprint
- New York : Guilford Press, c2010.
- Series
- Methodology in the social sciencesMethodology in the social sciences.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-378) and indexes.
- Added Author
- Jacoby, Jacob.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 14-182