Social Science Concepts and Measurement (eBook)

New and Completely Revised Edition

Gary Goertz (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2020
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20547-2 (ISBN)

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A fully revised edition of the classic reference on concepts and their role in social science researchSocial Science Concepts and Measurement offers an updated look at the theory and methodology of concepts for the social sciences. Emphasizing that most concepts are multilevel and multidimensional, this revised edition continues to bring the qualitative and quantitative closer together, with new chapters devoted to scaling, aggregation, and the methodological links between the semantics of concepts and numeric measures. In addition, it stresses that concepts are used for description and causal inference, and contain normative judgments.Initial chapters focus on conceptualization, followed by chapters on issues of measurement. The textbook examines concepts in the international arena (such as the global performance indicators used by international organizations like the UN and the World Bank), as well as classic paired concepts such as poverty and wealth, democracy and authoritarianism, and war and peace. Additionally, it explores such topics as typologies, hybrid concepts, and how complex concepts constitute complex theories. The volume serves as a guide to the methodology of concepts in the classroom and is accompanied by more than two hundred exercises. Social Science Concepts and Measurement is an indispensable resource for graduate students and scholars.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.9.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 40 b/w illus. 8 tables
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: Addition • Adjective • Analogy • Anocracy • asymmetry • authoritarianism • autocracy • Capability Approach • Categorization • causal inference • Causality • causal model • Causal theory • common pool resource theory • Complexity • complex theories • Concept • conceptualization • Conceptualization (information science) • Consideration • Corporatism • data set • de facto • Definition • Definitions • Democracy • Dimension • DSM • Dummy variable (statistics) • Economic Inequality • estimation • ethics • Explanation • Family resemblance • Fuzzy Logic • GDP per capita • Global Indicators • Governance • Government • Guideline • Household • Hybrid concepts • hybrid concept strategies • hybrid concept structures • hypothesis • ideal type • Ideology • Illustration • income • indicator construction • indicator measurement • Indicators • inference • Instance (computer science) • Institution • Intension • kingdon • Latent Variable • Latent variable model • Level of Measurement • linear algebra • Link aggregation • Literature • Logic • Manuscript • Mathematical Logic • Mathematics • Measurement • Membership function (mathematics) • Mental disorder • Methodology • multidimensional concepts • multilevel concepts • of education • Ontology • Operationalization • Ostrom • percentile • performance indicator • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophical Logic • Philosophy • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Poverty • Principle • Production Function • QCA • Qualitative research • quality of life • Quantification (science) • Quantity • Ranking (information retrieval) • real number • Regime • Requirement • result • scaling • Semantics • Skewness • Skocpol • social revolution • Social Science • Social Theory • Sociology • Standardization • States and revolutions • States and Social Revolutions • Statistic • Statistical hypothesis testing • Statistics • Subset • Symptom • Terminology • Textbook • theory • theory of agenda setting • Top-down and bottom-up design • Typology • Utilitarianism • Utility • Variable (mathematics) • war • Wealth • Welfare State • well-being • World Bank
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20547-7 / 0691205477
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20547-2 / 9780691205472