The Uses and Misuses of Data and Models: The Mathematization of the Human Sciences - Rilegato

Bradley, James; Schaefer, Kurt C.

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ISBN 10: 0761909214 ISBN 13: 9780761909217

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns, 1998

Riassunto

Undeniably, the amount of "information" in our culture has increased by leaps and bounds. At the same time, discussion of values, norms and purpose is often missing from the discourse of social research - especially by those who work within the positivist framework. The authors of this book develop principles to guide the use of data and models in the human sciences. Writing as scholars who are at home with empirical and mathematical social science, yet taking seriously the critiques of this heritage, they propose ways of developing norms without becoming subjective.

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Contenuti

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS
Oracles, Norms and Science
Modeling
Dreams and Disappointments
PART TWO: THE INFORMATION CYCLE
A Priori Influences on the Information Cycle
Measurement of Human Information
Limitations of Measurement in the Social Sciences
Information for Inferences
What Are Social Science Data?
Causality
Models and Policy Making

Product Description

Bradley and Schaefer avoid a radically subje ctive approach to the use of data and models in the analysis of information in the human sciences. They show how norms, values and purpose can and should be part of the discourse o f all researchers in the field. '

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Sage Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0761909214
• ISBN 13: 9780761909217
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 212
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile