ISBN:
9789401701235
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (VII, 204 p)
,
digital
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Series Statement:
Theory and Decision Library, Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences 35
Series Statement:
Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science 35
Parallel Title:
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Keywords:
Social sciences
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Social sciences Philosophy
;
Social sciences Methodology
;
Decision making.
;
Operations research
;
Anthropology
;
Sociology.
;
Philosophy and social sciences.
;
Sociology—Methodology.
Abstract:
Generating Images of Stratification is a self-contained presentation of a theoretical research program that deals with a significant explanatory problem relating to social inequality and that constructs generative theoretical models in doing so. In more detail: -Self-contained presentation - In respect to the background sociological facts and theoretical ideas and also the formal methods the book provides clear and simple accounts accompanied by examples. - A theoretical research program - The emphasis is on theory development, involving a series of theoretical models constructed within a core framework of principles and methods. - Deals with a significant explanatory problem relating to social inequality - We know from research that how people perceive the stratification system of a society depends upon their position in that system. So the problem is: What process generates this regularity and thereby explains empirical generalizations about the social structuration of images? - Constructs generative theoretical models - The book is an extended presentation of "generative theory" in sociology, a formal method of producing effective theoretical explanations. Generating Images of Stratification is of interest to mathematical sociologists and formal theorists in sociology; sociologists interested in social stratification; methodologists, both in sociology and in other fields; philosophers of social science; and theoretical scientists and mathematicians who are interested in applying their analytical tools to social science topics
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-017-0123-5
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