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Probability and Social Science : Methodological Relationships between the two Approaches / by Daniel Courgeau
(Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences. ISSN:25429892 ; 10)

Publisher	(Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer)
Year	2012
Edition	1st ed. 2012.
Authors	*Courgeau, Daniel author SpringerLink (Online service)

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00176423		Springer Humanities, Social Sciences and Law eBooks (電子ブック)	9789400728790

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Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	XXXIV, 310 p : online resource
Notes	General Introduction -- Part 1: From Probability to Social Sciences -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Chapter 1: The Objectivist Approach -- Chapter 2: The Epistemic Approach: Subjectivist Interpretation -- Chapter 3: The Epistemic Approach: Logicist Interpretation -- Conclusion of Part 1 -- Part II: From Population Sciences to Probability -- Introduction to Part II -- Chapter 4: The Dispersion of Measures in Population Sciences -- Chapter 5: Closer Links between Population Sciences and Probability -- Conclusion of Part II -- General Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index This work examines in depth the methodological relationships that probability and statistics have maintained with the social sciences from their emergence. It covers both the history of thought and current methods. First it examines in detail the history of the different paradigms and axioms for probability, from their emergence in the seventeenth century up to the most recent developments of the three major concepts: objective, subjective and logicist probability. It shows the statistical inference they permit, different applications to social sciences and the main problems they encounter. On the other side, from social sciences—particularly population sciences—to probability, it shows the different uses they made of probabilistic concepts during their history, from the seventeenth century, according to their paradigms: cross-sectional, longitudinal, hierarchical, contextual and multilevel approaches. While the ties may have seemed loose at times, they have more often been very close: some advances in probability were driven by the search for answers to questions raised by the social sciences; conversely, the latter have made progress thanks to advances in probability. This dual approach sheds new light on the historical development of the social sciences and probability, and on the enduring relevance of their links. It permits also to solve a number of methodological problems encountered all along their history HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2879-0
Subjects	LCSH:Sociology—Methodology LCSH:Probabilities LCSH:Statistics FREE:Sociological Methods FREE:Probability Theory FREE:Statistical Theory and Methods
Classification	LCC:HM511-538 DC23:301.01
ID	8000020190
ISBN	9789400728790