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This book presents an overview and assessment of the conceptual advances in economics during the last century. The book relies heavily on engaging examples, intended to draw in the reader and to demonstrate the far-reaching application of economic reasoning to social phenomena

AbstractHistorians and social scientists routinely, and inevitably, rely on sources that are unrepresentative of the past. The articles in this special issue of the journal illustrate the widespread prevalence of selection bias in historical sources, and the ways in which historians negotiate this challenge to reach useful conclusions from valuable, if imperfect sources.

Bayesian methods are increasingly being used in the social sciences, as the problems encountered lend themselves so naturally to the subjective qualities of Bayesian methodology. This book provides an accessible introduction to Bayesian methods, tailored specifically for social science students. It contains lots of real examples from political science, psychology, sociology, and economics, exercises in all chapters, and detailed descriptions of all the key concepts, without assuming any background in statistics beyond a first course. It features examples of how to implement the methods using W

"The primary object has been to mobilize the concrete social data of the community for analysis and determination. The most essential materials of the Census bureau of the various government departments, and of certain great national organizations and research bureaus have been brought together as the basis for the work of the students." ; Mode of access: Internet.

The social sciences make use of historical evidence for several purposes: testing general models, identifying trends, estimating values for certain quantities that were not explicitly measured in the past, & providing models that can be compared or contrasted with the present. Historians normally approach evidence skeptically, using methods comparable to those of lawyers; the branches of history closer to the social sciences emphasize other concerns, notably the generation of data by inference from indirect evidence, due to the impossibility of exhaustive study & proof. The social sciences have moved away from historical & evolutionary approaches to essentially static abstract models, but actual human life seldom meets the static assumptions of these approaches. A nonreductionist but evolutionary approach, exemplified by the methods of Karl Marx, offers a more productive synthesis of history & social science. Such an approach has the fundamental effect on the social sciences of introducing questions of change, dynamic interaction, & transformation; its use requires several levels of analysis, avoidance of excessive reductionism, analysis of complex interactions among distinct but interacting societies, & recognition that predictions apply only under certain conditions. Unlike the social sciences, history cannot select specific aspects of human life for separate study, but must synthesize human life into a totality; if this is done consciously, history can be a source of structure for the social sciences. W. H. Stoddard.

Theory and Method in the Social Sciences was first published in 1954. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. A series of essays dealing with some previously neglected areas of theory and research in the social sciences make up this volume. The problems considered fall into the general categories of social theory, values in social research, the contributions of sociological theory to the other social sciences, methodological issues in sociology, and some specific techniques of sociological research. The chapter entitled "A Theory of Social Organization and Disorganization," published here for the first time, won for Dr. Rose the 1952 prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for essays in social science. Although addressed primarily to sociologists, the book offers material of interest and value to other social scientists, particularly economists, psychologists, political scientists, and students of law

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For a discipline that lies beyond the boundaries of what traditionally has been considered the domain of the humanities, political science has not fared badly at the endowment established to promote humanistic knowledge. However, that is a subjective judgment: One of the dubious charms of the NEH has been its failure, until recently, to implement a data collection and retrieval system that could yield information concerning the magnitude of support received by a given discipline. At long last an ADP system, known to its friends as AUGUSTUS (its enemies call it other things), is undergoing debugging. It is scheduled to be fully operational by the end of the current fiscal year.Two additional factors make it difficult to isolate grants awarded in political science. The Endowment, unlike the National Science Foundation, divides its workload principally by the type of audiences at which funded projects are aimed—e.g., the general public, research scholars, educators, community groups—rather than by discipline. Thus, just as there is no English program, so there is no political science program at the Endowment. Projects conducted by political scientists are eligible to compete in all of the funding categories administered by the Divisions of Fellowships, Research Grants, Public Programs, and Education Programs. To the extent that they express local or regional interests and involve a general out-of-school public, they may also compete for funds offered by the State Humanities Committees which serve as regrant agencies for the Endowment.

These pages present the communications of a roundtable held during the workshop organized by Politix in preparation of this hundredth issue. Relying on their personal experience, the participants engage in assessing the opportunities and constraints defining the edition of a social science journal in nowadays context. Adapted from the source document.