Theory Construction and Model-Building Skills: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists - Couverture rigide

Jaccard, James; Jacob, Jacoby

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1606233408 ISBN 13 : 9781606233405

Editeur : Guilford Publications, 2010

Synopsis

Meeting a crucial need for graduate students and newly minted researchers, this innovative text provides hands-on tools for generating ideas and translating them into formal theories. It is illustrated with numerous practical examples drawn from multiple social science disciplines and research settings. The authors offer clear guidance for defining constructs, thinking through relationships and processes that link constructs, and deriving new theoretical models (or building on existing ones) based on those relationships. Step by step, they show readers how to use causal analysis, mathematical modeling, simulations, and grounded and emergent approaches to theory construction. A chapter on writing about theories contains invaluable advice on crafting effective papers and grant applications.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

James Jaccard, Jacob Jacoby

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Guilford Publications
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1606233408
• ISBN 13: 9781606233405
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 391
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible