Research Strategies in the Social Sciences: A Guide to New Approaches
Elinor Scarbrough and Eric Tanenbaum
Abstract
This volume is a collection of commissioned articles by 16 experts in social science methodology, each contribution introducing experienced social scientists to more advanced analytic techniques. The contributions explain the theoretical underpinnings of a particular technique, and illustrate the approach with a worked example. The techniques covered are the basic regression model and its extensions, linear structural equation modelling, log‐linear and latent class models, multi‐level modelling, and three extensions to modelling time series data. In these contributions, statistical notation is ... More
This volume is a collection of commissioned articles by 16 experts in social science methodology, each contribution introducing experienced social scientists to more advanced analytic techniques. The contributions explain the theoretical underpinnings of a particular technique, and illustrate the approach with a worked example. The techniques covered are the basic regression model and its extensions, linear structural equation modelling, log‐linear and latent class models, multi‐level modelling, and three extensions to modelling time series data. In these contributions, statistical notation is kept to a minimum; where necessary, it is consigned to footnotes or an appendix. Three final contributions introduce new developments in rational choice theory and discourse analysis.
Keywords:
discourse analysis,
game theory,
latent class models,
log‐linear models,
multi‐level models,
rational choice theory,
regression models,
social sciences,
structural equation modelling,
time series
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1998 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198292371 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 |
DOI:10.1093/0198292376.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Elinor Scarbrough, editor
University of Essex
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Eric Tanenbaum, editor
University of Essex
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