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Sociology as a population science:
Provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology which focus on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations.
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United Kingdom:
Cambridge University Press,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Sociology as a population science: the central idea
- Individual variability in human social life
- The individualistic paradigm
- Population regularities as basic explananda
- Statistics, concepts and the objects of sociological study
- Statistics and methods of data collection
- Statistics and methods of data analysis
- The limits of statistics: causal explanation
- Causal explanation through social mechanisms
- Conclusion
- References
- Index.