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1 online resource (xi, 247 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file PDF rda |
| Series |
Princeton paperbacks |
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Princeton paperbacks.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-238) and index. |
| Contents |
The Science in Social Science -- Descriptive Inference -- Causality and Causal Inference -- Determining What to Observe -- Understanding What to Avoid -- Increasing the Number of Observations. |
| Summary |
"While heated arguments between practitioners of qualitative and quantitative research have begun to test the very integrity of the social sciences, Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba have produced a farsighted and timely book that promises to sharpen and strengthen a wide range of research performed in this field. These leading scholars, each representing diverse academic traditions, have developed a unified approach to valid descriptive and causal inference in qualitative research, where numerical measurement is either impossible or undesirable. Their book demonstrates that the same logic of inference underlies both good quantitative and good qualitative research designs, and their approach applies equally to each. Providing precepts intended to stimulate and discipline thought, the authors explore issues related to framing research questions, measuring the accuracy of data and uncertainty of empirical inferences, discovering causal effects, and generally improving qualitative research. Among the specific topics they address are interpretation and inference, comparative case studies, constructing causal theories, dependent and explanatory variables, the limits of random selection, selection bias, and errors in measurement. Mathematical notation is occasionally used to clarify concepts, but no prior knowledge of mathematics or statistics is assumed. The unified logic of inference that this book explicates will be enormously useful to qualitative researchers of all traditions and substantive fields"--Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Methodology.
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Social sciences -- Research.
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Inference.
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Qualitative research.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology.
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Inference. (OCoLC)fst00972355
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Qualitative research. (OCoLC)fst01084940
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Social sciences -- Methodology.
(OCoLC)fst01122933
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Social sciences -- Research. (OCoLC)fst01122944
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Empirische Sozialforschung.
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Forschungsplanung.
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Qualitative Methode.
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Kwalitatieve methoden.
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Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek.
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Sociologia (pesquisa e metodologia)
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Samhällsvetenskaplig forskning -- metodik.
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Kvalitativ metod.
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| Indexed Term |
Social sciences Research |
| Added Author |
Keohane, Robert O. (Robert Owen), 1941- author.
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Verba, Sidney, author.
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| Added Title |
Scientific inference in qualitative research |
| Other Form: |
Print version: King, Gary. Designing social inquiry. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1994 9780691034706 9780691034713 (DLC) 93039283 (OCoLC)29225092 |
| ISBN |
9781400821211 (electronic book) |
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1400821215 (electronic book) |
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9780691034706 (cloth) |
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0691034702 (cloth) |
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9780691034713 (paperback) |
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0691034710 (paperback) |
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1400812364 |
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9781400812363 |
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