| Constructing Social Theories Contributor(s): Stinchcombe, Arthur L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226774848 ISBN-13: 9780226774848 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $33.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1987 Annotation: This book presents to the reader a range of strategies for constructing theories, and in a clear, rigorous, and imaginative manners, illustrates how they can be applied. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 301.01 |
| LCCN: 87005080 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.44" W x 8.68" (0.81 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Constructing Social Theories presents to the reader a range of strategies for constructing theories, and in a clear, rigorous, and imaginative manner, illustrates how they can be applied. Arthur L. Stinchcombe argues that theories should not be invented in the abstract-or applied a priori to a problem-but should be dictated by the nature of the data to be explained. This work was awarded the Sorokin prize by the American Sociological Association as the book that made an outstanding contribution to the progress of sociology in 1970. |