Cumulative social inquiry
Subtitle: transforming novelty into innovation
By: by Robert B. Smith.
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781593856533; 9781593858339
Subjects: Social sciences -- Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: On differentiation and specialization; title: Disjunctions between social theory and quantitative measurements; title: Explications of texts : a useful tool; title: Components of cumulative social inquiry; title: The chapters; title: Cumulative social inquiry : theoretical paradigms, social research, and empirically based theorizing; title: Scientific communities and theoretical paradigms; title: Exemplars and theories; title: Conclusions; title: Linking quality and quantity; title: Diachronic articulation : quantitative first, then qualitative; title: Synchronic articulation; title: Diachronic articulation : qualitative first, then quantitative; title: Conclusions; title: Building quantitative studies on the qualitative; title: Conceptual frameworks; title: Items for indexes; title: Vignettes and factorial surveys; title: Analysis plans; title: Evidence-based policy; title: Conclusions; title: Qualitative and quantitative social structural theorizing; title: A logic and vocabulary for structural theorizing; title: Qualitative structural inquiries; title: Quantitative structural inquiries; title: Conclusions; title: Statistical methods and process models; title: Structural statistical methods; title: Process models; title: Conclusions; title: Transforming novelty into innovation; title: A theoretically informed data-first strategy : cognitive dissonance; title: A use-inspired strategy : collective action; title: A theory-first, division-of-labor : post-industrial societies; title: Theory-driven survey research on political participation; title: Conclusions; title: Conclusion.