| 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. |
| Abstract |
Provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology which focus on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-161) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Ebook version : 9781316435458 |
| LCCN | 2016301070 |
| ISBN | 9781107127838 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1107127831 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781107567313 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1107567319 (paperback) |
