Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Sociology as a population science: the central idea
- 2 Individual variability in human social life
- 3 The individualistic paradigm
- 4 Population regularities as basic explananda
- 5 Statistics, concepts and the objects of sociological study
- 6 Statistics and methods of data collection
- 7 Statistics and methods of data analysis
- 8 The limits of statistics: causal explanation
- 9 Causal explanation through social mechanisms
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- References
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2015
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Sociology as a population science: the central idea
- 2 Individual variability in human social life
- 3 The individualistic paradigm
- 4 Population regularities as basic explananda
- 5 Statistics, concepts and the objects of sociological study
- 6 Statistics and methods of data collection
- 7 Statistics and methods of data analysis
- 8 The limits of statistics: causal explanation
- 9 Causal explanation through social mechanisms
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- References
Summary
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Sociology as a Population Science , pp. 141 - 161Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
References
1992. ‘What do cases do? Some notes on activity in sociological analysis’, in and (eds), What is a case?Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
1995. ‘Sequence analysis: new methods for old ideas’, Annual Review of Sociology 21: 93–113.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 2000. ‘Sequence analysis and optimal matching methods in sociology’, Sociological Methods and Research 29: 3–33.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2005. ‘Two cheers for Charles Ragin’, Studies in Comparative International Development, 40: 27–32.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 2010. ‘New life for old ideas: the “second wave” of sequence analysis bringing the “course” back into the life course’, Sociological Methods and Research 38: 420–62.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2008. The changing distribution of earnings in OECD countries. New York: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (eds) 2004. Models of man: essays in memory of Herbert A. Simon. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar
and 1999. ‘In search of the “traditional” working class: social mobility and occupational continuity in interwar London’, Economic History Review 52: 692–713.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
1991. ‘Precursors to a theory of mind: understanding attention in others’, in (ed.), Natural theories of mind. Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar
2003. ‘Educational expansion and persistent inequalities of education in Germany’, European Sociological Review 19: 1–24.Google Scholar
2008. ‘Process tracing: a Bayesian perspective’, in , and (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
and 2010. ‘As-if behavioural economics: neoclassical economics in disguise?’, History of Economic Ideas 18: 133–65.Google Scholar
2005. ‘Life course analysis: two (complementary) cultures?’, Advances in Life Course Research 10: 261–81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2015. ‘Integrating macro- and micro-level approaches in the explanation of population change’, Population Studies 69: S11–20.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
and 2012. ‘Natural kinds’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/archive/win2012/entries/natural-kinds/ (last accessed 1 May 2015).
, , and 2010. ‘Understanding the mechanisms behind intergenerational persistence: a comparison of the United States and Great Britain’, in , and (eds), Persistence, privilege, and parenting. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.Google Scholar
1992. The methodology of economics, 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (eds) 1998. Rational choice theory and large-scale data analysis. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.Google Scholar
and (eds) 2006. Globalization, uncertainty and women's careers. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, and (eds) 2006. Globalization, uncertainty and men's careers. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1956. ‘Sociological analysis and the “variable”’, American Sociological Review 21: 683–90.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2010. ‘Measurement models for survey research’, in and (eds), Handbook of survey research, 2nd edn. Bingley: Emerald.Google Scholar
1987. ‘The individualistic tradition in sociology’, in , , and (eds), The micro-macro link. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.Google Scholar
1990. ‘Individualism and holism in the social sciences’, in and (eds), Individualism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
1996. ‘The “cognitivist model”: a generalised “rational choice” model’, Rationality and Society 8: 123–50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1906. ‘Address to the economic science and statistics section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 47: 607–25.Google Scholar
and 1999. ‘Norms and bounded rationality’, in and (eds), Bounded rationality: the adaptive toolbox. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar
, and 2006. ‘Toward a pluralistic vision of methodology’, Political Analysis 14: 353–68.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 1997. ‘Explaining educational differentials: towards a formal rational action theory’, Rationality and Society 9: 275–305.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 2006. ‘Testing the Breen-Goldthorpe model of educational decision-making’, in , and (eds), Mobility and inequality: frontiers of research from sociology and economics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar
, and 2014. ‘Deciding under doubt: a theory of risk aversion, time discounting preferences and educational decision-making’, European Sociological Review 30: 258–73.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2001. ‘Statistical modelling: the two cultures’ (with discussion), Statistical Science 16: 199–231.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 2007. ‘The road not taken: how psychology was removed from economics and how it might be brought back’, Economic Journal 117: 146–73.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2013. ‘The composition of family background: the influence of the economic and cultural resources of both parents on the offspring's educational attainment in the Netherlands between 1939 and 1981’, European Sociological Review 29: 593–602.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2012. ‘The relationship between work history and partnership formation in cohorts of British men born in 1958 and 1970’, Population Studies 66: 123–45.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
and 2013. ‘Decomposing “social origins”: the effects of parents’ class, status and education on the educational attainment of their children’, European Sociological Review 29: 1024–39.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, and 2014. ‘The effects of social origins and cognitive ability on educational attainment: evidence from Britain and Sweden’, Acta Sociologica 57: 293–310.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , and 2014. ‘The mobility problem in Britain: new findings from the analysis of birth cohort data’, British Journal of Sociology 66: 93–117.Google ScholarPubMed
, , and 2015. ‘Is education now class destiny? Class histories across three British birth cohorts’. Workshop on Algorithmic Methods in Social Research, Nuffield College, Oxford.
2012. ‘UK sociology and quantitative methods: are we as weak as they think? Or are they barking up the wrong tree?’, Sociology 46: 13–24.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2014. ‘Complexity and the failure of quantitative social science’, Discover Society. http://www.discoversociety.org/2014/11/04/focus-complexity-and-the-failure-of-quantitative-social-science/ (last accessed 1 May 2015).
(ed.) 2010. Social status and cultural consumption. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 2007. ‘Class and status: the conceptual distinction and its empirical relevance’, American Sociological Review 72: 512–32.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , , and (eds) 2007. Public sociology. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.Google Scholar
1965. The social interpretation of the French revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
1965. ‘The planning of observational studies of human populations’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 128: 234–66.Google Scholar
1994. ‘Why sociology doesn't make progress like the natural sciences’, Sociological Forum 9: 133–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1986. ‘Social theory, social research, and a theory of action’, American Journal of Sociology 91: 1309–35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, and 2004. ‘Sources of leverage in causal inference: towards and alternative view of methodology’, in and (eds), Rethinking social inquiry. Lanham: Rowmanand Littlefield.Google Scholar
2005. ‘Applying Ragin's crisp and fuzzy set QCA to large datasets: social class and educational achievement in the National Child Development Study’, Sociological Research Online. http://www.socresonline.org.uk/10/2/cooper1.html (last accessed 1 May 2015).
, , , , and 1959. ‘Smoking and lung cancer: recent evidence and a discussion of some questions’, Journal of the National Cancer Institute 22: 173–203.Google Scholar
2013. ‘Is the sky falling? New technology, changing media, and the future of surveys’, Survey Research Methods 7: 145–56.Google Scholar
1992. ‘Causality: some statistical aspects’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 155: 291–301.Google Scholar
2001. ‘Comment’ on Breiman (2001).
and 1996. Multivariate dependencies: models, analysis and interpretation. London: Chapman and Hall.Google Scholar
and 2011. Principles of applied statistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, and 1989. ‘Risk analysis of the space shuttle: pre-Challenger prediction of failure’, Journal of the American Statistical Association 84: 945–57.Google Scholar
, and 2002. ‘The relative risk aversion hypothesis of educational choice’, Journal of Population Economics 15: 683–713.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 1945. ‘Some principles of stratification’, American Sociological Review 10: 242–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2010. ‘Instruments, randomization, and learning about development’, Journal of Economic Literature 48: 424–55.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1991. ‘The part in relation to the whole: how to generalise? The pre-history of representative sampling’, in , and (eds), The social survey in historical perspective, 1880–1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
and 2006. ‘Cumulative advantage as a mechanism for inequality: a review of theory and evidence’, Annual Review of Sociology 32: 271–97.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2000. ‘Causal reasoning, mental rehearsal and the evolution of primate cognition’, in and (eds), The evolution of cognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar
1961. ‘A socioeconomic index for all occupations’, in (ed.), Occupations and social status. New York: Free Press.Google Scholar
1992. Sick societies: challenging the myth of primitive harmony. New York: Free Press.Google Scholar
1885. ‘Observations and statistics: an essay on the theory of errors and the first principles of statistics’, Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 14: 138–69.Google Scholar
1989. Nuts and bolts for the social sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1998. ‘A plea for mechanisms’, in and (eds), Social mechanisms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
1998. ‘Thresholds and mechanisms’, in and (eds), Rational choice theory and large-scale data analysis. Boulder, CO: Westview.Google Scholar
and 1996. ‘Explaining class inequality in education: the Swedish test case’, in and (eds), Can education be equalized?Boulder, CO: Westview.Google Scholar
, and 2012. ‘No way back up from ratcheting down? A critique of the “microclass” approach to the analysis of social mobility’, Acta Sociologica 55: 211–29.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1996. ‘What is wrong with variable sociology?’, European Sociological Review 12: 159–66.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1999. Soziologie. Spezielle Grundlagen. Band 1: Situationslogik und Handeln. Frankfurt: Campus.Google Scholar
, and 2003. Changing Britain, changing lives: three generations at the turn of the century. London: Institute of Education.Google Scholar
1922. ‘On the dominance ratio’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 52: 321–41.Google Scholar
1991. ‘Statistical analysis and shoe leather’, Sociological Methodology 21: 291–313.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1992. ‘As others see us: a case study in path analysis’, in (ed.), The role of models in nonexperimental social science: two debates. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association and American Statistical Association.Google Scholar
1997. ‘From association to causation via regression’, in and (eds), Causality in crisis?Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press.Google Scholar
2010. Statistical models and causal inference: a dialogue with the social sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
and 2013. ‘Six paths for the future of social epidemiology’, American Journal of Epidemiology 178: 843–49.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
1889b. ‘Comments’ on Tylor (1889).
2009. ‘Signalling’, in and (eds), The Oxford handbook of analytical sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
2011. ‘Causality and statistical learning’, American Journal of Sociology 117: 955–66.Google Scholar
and 2013. ‘Why ask why? Forward causal inference and reverse causal questions’. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 19614.
and 2005. Case studies and theory development in the social sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar
and 1999. ‘Fast and frugal heuristics: the adaptive toolbox’, in and (eds), Simple heuristics that make us smart. New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
, , , , and 1989. The empire of chance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1963. ‘Intellectual factors in the background of analysis by probabilities’, in (ed.), Scientific change. New York: Basic Books.Google Scholar
1965. ‘Introduction’ to 1965 reprint of Hobhouse, Wheeler and Ginsberg (1915).
and 2009. ‘Scope in case study research’, in and (eds), The Sage handbook of case-based methods. Los Angeles: Sage.Google Scholar
1995. ‘Predicting revolutions: why we could (and should) have foreseen the revolutions of 1989–91 in the USSR and Eastern Europe’, in (ed.), Debating revolutions. New York: New York University Press.Google Scholar
2003. ‘Comparative historical analysis and knowledge accumulation in the study of revolutions’, in and (eds), Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
1987. Social mobility and class structure in modern Britain, 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon Press.Google Scholar
1994. ‘The uses of history in sociology: a reply’, British Journal of Sociology 45: 55–77.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1996. ‘Class analysis and the reorientation of class theory: the case of persisting differentials in educational attainment’, British Journal of Sociology 47: 481–505.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2012. ‘Back to class and status: or why a sociological view of social inequality should be re-asserted’, Revista española de investigaciones sociológicas 137: 1–16.Google Scholar
2013. ‘Understanding – and misunderstanding – social mobility: the entry of the economists, the confusion of politicians and the limits of educational policy’, Journal of Social Policy 42: 431–50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2014. ‘The role of education in intergenerational social mobility: problems from empirical research in sociology and some theoretical pointers from economics’, Rationality and Society 26: 265–89.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , and 1969. The affluent worker in the class structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
2007a. ‘Statistical magic and/or statistical serendipity: an age of progress in the analysis of categorical data’, Annual Review of Sociology 33: 1–19.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2007b. ‘Otis Dudley Duncan, quantitative sociologist par excellence: path analysis, loglinear methods, and Rasch models’, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 25: 129–39.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1995. Getting a job: a study of contacts and careers, 2nd edn. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
and 1984. ‘Comparative social mobility revisited: models of divergence and convergence in 16 countries’, American Sociological Review 49: 19–38.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1987. ‘Was there a probabilistic revolution, 1800–1930?’, in , and (eds), The probabilistic revolution, vol. 1. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar
and 1998. ‘Class careers as sequences: an optimal matching of work-life histories’, European Sociological Review 14, 111–29.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1994. ‘John Goldthorpe and the relics of sociology’, British Journal of Sociology 45: 21–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 1997. ‘Socioeconomic indexes for occupations: a review, update and critique’, Sociological Methodology 44: 203–18.Google Scholar
1992. The inexact and separate science of economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1995. ‘Reflections on historical prophecy in the social sciences’, American Journal of Sociology 100: 1520–7.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 1998a. ‘Social mechanisms: an introductory essay’, in and (eds), Social mechanisms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 2009a. ‘What is analytical sociology all about? An introductory essay’, in and (eds), The Oxford handbook of analytical sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
and (eds) 2009b. The Oxford handbook of analytical sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
, and 1915. The material culture and social institutions of the simpler peoples. London: Chapman and Hall.Google Scholar
1986. ‘Statistics and causal inference’, Journal of the American Statistical Association 81: 945–60.Google Scholar
and 2008. ‘Does relative risk aversion explain educational inequality? A dynamic choice approach’, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 26: 199–219.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1984. As others see us: schooling and social mobility in Scotland and the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
2013. ‘Qualitative comparative analysis: How inductive use and measurement error lead to problematic inference’, Political Analysis 21: 252–65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 2003. Rising tide: gender equality and cultural change around the world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(ed.) 2008. Social stratification and social mobility in late-industrializing countries. Tokyo: SSM Research Series 14.Google Scholar
(ed.) 2013. Determined to succeed: performance versus choice in educational attainment. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2007. ‘Educational mobility across three generations: the changing impact of parental social class, economic, social and cultural capital’, European Sociological Review 9: 527–50.Google Scholar
, , , and 2009. ‘Microclass mobility: social reproduction in four countries’, American Journal of Sociology 114: 977–1036.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
1957. ‘Malinowski's contribution to field-work methods and the writing of ethnography’, in (ed.), Man and culture: an evaluation of the work of Bronislaw Malinowski. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.Google Scholar
and 1979. ‘Prospect theory: an analysis of decision under risk’, Econometrica 47: 263–91.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 1950. ‘Problems of survey analysis’, in and (eds), Continuities in social research: studies in the scope and method of ‘The American Soldier’. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.Google Scholar
, , and 1960. Industrialism and industrial man. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
1895–96. ‘Observations et expériences concernant des dénombrements représentatifs’, Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute 9: 176–83.Google Scholar
1903. ‘Sur les méthodes représentatives ou typologique’, Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute 13: 66–70.Google Scholar
2011. ‘Causal modelling, mechanism, and probability in epidemiology’, in , and (eds), Causality in the sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
, and 2015. ‘Fuzzy sets on shaky grounds: parameter sensitivity and confirmation bias in fsQCA’, Political Analysis 23: 21–41.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1987. ‘The slow rise of probabilism: philosophical arguments in the nineteenth century’, in , and (eds), The probabilistic revolution, vol. 1. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar
and 1980. ‘Representative sampling, IV: the history of the concept in statistics, 1895–1939’, International Statistical Review 48: 169–95.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1999. ‘Imitation, social learning and preparedness as mechanisms of bounded rationality’, in , and (eds), Bounded rationality: the adaptive toolbox. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar
1972. ‘Introduction: the history of the family’, in (ed.), Household and family in past time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2000. ‘On the partial existence of existing and nonexisting objects’, in (ed.), Biographies of scientific objects. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
1955. ‘Interpretation of statistical relations as a research operation’, in and (eds), The Language of social research, Glencoe, IL: Free Press.Google Scholar
1961. ‘Notes on the history of quantification in sociology’, Isis 52: 277–333.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , , , et al. 2009. ‘Computational social science’, Science, 323: 721–3.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , and 2014. ‘The parable of Google flu: traps in big data analysis’, Science 343: 1203–5.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
1957. ‘The epistemological background to Malinowski's empiricism’, in (ed.), Man and culture: an evaluation of the work of Bronislaw Malinowski. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.Google Scholar
2001. ‘Demography abandons its core’. Population Association of America, presentation at the Annual Meeting.
, and 2009. ‘Health and economic inequality’, in and (eds), The Oxford handbook of economic inequality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
2010. ‘The unfolding story of the second demographic transition’, Population and Development Review 36: 211–51.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
2000. ‘But what have you done for us lately? Commentary on Abbott and Tsay’, Sociological Methods and Research 29: 34–40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2002. ‘The rise and fall of sample surveys in Norway’, Science in Context 15: 385–409.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 2002. ‘Barking up the wrong branch: scientific alternatives to the current model of sociological science’, Annual Review of Sociology 28: 1–19.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1956. ‘Some remarks on “The Social System”’, British Journal of Sociology 7: 134–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2008. ‘The widest cleft in statistics: how and why Fisher opposed Neyman and Pearson’. Lisbon: Istituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Working Paper 2–2008/DE/UECE.
and 2014. ‘Qualitative comparative analysis in critical perspective’, Sociological Methodology 44: 1–79.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , , , and 2004. ‘Is income inequality a determinant of population health?’, Millbank Quarterly 82: 5–99 and 355–400.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
2011. ‘The spread of evidence-poor medicine via flawed social-network analysis’, Statistics, Policy and Politics 2: 1–26.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2003. The man who changed everything: the life of James Clerk Maxwell. Chichester: Wiley.Google Scholar
and 2006. ‘A tale of two cultures: contrasting quantitative and qualitative research’, Political Analysis 14: 227–49.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 2008. ‘Comparative-historical analysis in contemporary political science’, in , and (eds), The Oxford handbook of political methodology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
, and 2009. ‘The logic of historical explanation in the social sciences’, Comparative Political Studies 42: 114–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, and 2007. ‘The Kitty Genovese murder and the social psychology of helping: the parable of the 38 witnesses’, American Psychologist 6: 555–62.Google Scholar
1996. ‘The changing meaning of cohabitation and marriage’, European Sociological Review 12: 53–65.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
1982. The survey method: the contribution of surveys to sociological explanation. London: Allen and Unwin.Google Scholar
2010. ‘Crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis (csQCA) and model specification: benchmarks for future csQCA applications’, International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches 4: 138–58.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2001. ‘The philosophical foundations of Darwinism’, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 145: 488–95.Google ScholarPubMed
and 1998. ‘Categorical data analysis: log-linear and latent class models’, in and (eds), Research strategies in the social sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
1959. ‘Notes on problem finding in sociology’, in , and (eds), Sociology today: problems and prospects. New York: Harper and Row.Google Scholar
1987. ‘Three fragments from a sociologist's notebook: establishing the phenomenon, specified ignorance and strategic research materials’, Annual Review of Sociology 13: 1–28.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1843/1973–74. A system of logic ratiocinative and inductive, in (ed.), Collected works of John Stuart Mill. Toronto, ON: Toronto University Press.Google Scholar
, and 2005. ‘Becoming an adult in uncertain times’, in , , and (eds), Globalization, uncertainty and youth in society. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
1969. Social networks in urban situations: analysis of personal relations in central African towns. Manchester: Manchester University Press.Google Scholar
1984. Max Weber and German politics 1890–1920. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
2014. ‘Case studies’, in and (eds), Philosophy of Social Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
and 2007. Counterfactuals and causal Inference. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2002. ‘Modelling populations: Pearson and Fisher on Mendelism and biometry’, British Journal of Philosophy of Science 53: 39–68.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 2003. ‘The diffusion of cohabitation among young women in West Germany, East Germany and Italy’, European Journal of Population 19: 47–82.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 2000. ‘Educational differentials in the Netherlands: testing rational action theory’, Rationality and Society 13: 71–98.Google Scholar
1934. ‘On the two different aspects of the representative method: the method of stratified sampling and the method of purposive selection’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 97: 558–606.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1952. Lectures and conferences on mathematical statistics and probability. Washington, DC: US Department of Agriculture.Google Scholar
1975. ‘Study of chance mechanisms – a quasi-Copernican revolution in science and mathematics’, in (ed.), The heritage of Copernicus. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar
2001. ‘“Divorce effects” and causality in the social sciences’, European Sociological Review 17: 33–57.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 2007. ‘On causation in demography: issues and illustrations’, Population and Development Review 33: 1–36.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2004. ‘The vacant “we”: remarks on public sociology’, Social Forces 82: 1619–27.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1994. ‘Women's rising employment and the future of the family in industrial society’, Population and Development Review 20: 293–342.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1997. ‘Men's career development and marriage timing during a period of rising inequality’, Demography 34: 311–30.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
2000. ‘Collective action and the evolution of social norms’, Journal of Economic Perspectives 14: 137–58.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1998. ‘Theories and models of diffusion in sociology’. Centre for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Working Paper 98–11.
1940. ‘An analytical approach to the theory of social stratification’, American Journal of Sociology 45: 849–62.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1966. Societies: evolutionary and comparative perspectives. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.Google Scholar
1999. ‘Epidemiology as a population science’, International Journal of Epidemiology 28: S1015–18.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
2011. ‘Epidemiology in a changing world: variation, causation and ubiquitous risk factors’, International Journal of Epidemiology 40: 503–12.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2000. Causality: models, reasoning, and inference. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
1934. Rapport sur les recherches concernant la structure de la population ouvrière en Pologne selon la méthode representative. Warsaw: Institute for Social Problems.Google Scholar
2014. Capital in the twenty-first century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
2007. ‘The power of culture’, in and (eds), The Oxford handbook of evolutionary psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
1982. ‘A statistical survey of gases: Maxwell's social physics’, Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 8: 77–116.Google Scholar
1986. The rise of statistical thinking, 1820–1900. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
1835/1842. A treatise on man and the development of his faculties. Edinburgh: Chambers.Google Scholar
1846. Lettres à S. A. R. le Duc Régnant de Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, sur la théorie des probabilities, appliquée aux sciences morales et politiques. Brussels: Hayez.Google Scholar
2013. ‘New directions in the logic of social inquiry’, Political Research Quarterly 66: 171–4.Google Scholar
and 2004. ‘Replies to commentaries: reassurances and rebuttals’, Qualitative Methods 2: 22–4.Google Scholar
1957. ‘The concept of culture in Malinowski's work’, in (ed.), Man and culture: an evaluation of the work of Bronislaw Malinowski. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.Google Scholar
and 2013. ‘Qualitative comparative analysis at 25: state of play and agenda’, Political Research Quarterly 66: 167–71.Google Scholar
and 2010. Social class in Europe: an introduction to the European Socio-Economic Classification. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
and (eds) 2003. A researcher's guide to the National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification. London: Sage.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (with ) 2005. The National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification: origins, development and use. London: Palgrave Macmillan.Google Scholar
and 2004. ‘Sampling and estimation in hidden populations using respondent-driven sampling’, Sociological Methodology 34: 193–239.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , , , et al. 2013. ‘A new model of social class? Findings from the BBC's great class survey experiment’, Sociology 47: 219–50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2005. ‘Qualitative comparative analysis vis-à-vis regression’, Studies in Comparative International Development 40: 3–26.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1986. ‘Prediction and economic theory’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A407: 3–23.Google Scholar
(ed.) 1982. Frédéric Le Play on family, work and social change. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press.Google Scholar
1997. ‘Social surveys and social science’, Canadian Journal of Statistics 25: 23–44.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1998. ‘Theoretical mechanisms and the empirical study of social processes’, in and (eds), Social mechanisms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
2008. Across the boundaries: extrapolation in biology and the social sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
1999. ‘Statistical concepts in psychology’, in (ed.), Statistics on the table: the history of statistical concepts and methods, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
2007. ‘Explaining educational decision and effects of families’ social class position: an empirical test of the Breen-Goldthorpe model of educational attainment’, European Sociological Review 23: 505–19.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1997. Some British empiricists in the social sciences, 1650–1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
2006. ‘Students as rational decision-makers: the question of beliefs and desires’, London Review of Education 4: 271–90.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1998. ‘Does risk factor epidemiology put epidemiology at risk?’, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 52: 608–11.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
1964. Poverty and progress: social mobility in a nineteenth century city. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
2011. ‘Causality, theories and medicine’, in , and (eds), Causality in the sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
, and 2007. Marriage and cohabitation. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1995. ‘The bourgeois gentilshommes of revolutionary theory’, in (ed.), Debating revolutions. New York: New York University Press.Google Scholar
, and 2005. ‘Aggregate age-at-marriage patterns from individual mate-search heuristics’, Demography 42: 559–74.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
and 1992. ‘The psychological foundations of culture’, in , and (eds), The adapted mind. New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
and 2009. ‘Stratification and mortality – a comparison of education, class, status and income’, European Sociological Review 26: 465–74.Google Scholar
and 2010. ‘Marital partner and mortality: the effects of the social positions of both spouses’, International Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 63: 992–8.Google Scholar
1953. ‘Some principles of stratification: a critical analysis’, American Sociological Review 18: 387–94.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2007. ‘Is public sociology such a good idea?’, in (ed.), Public sociology: the contemporary debate. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.Google Scholar
1889. ‘On a method of investigating the development of institutions: applied to laws of marriage and descent’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 18: 245–56, 261–9.Google Scholar
Verein für Sozialpolitik. 1912. Verhandlungen der Generalversammlung in Nürnberg, 1911. Leipzig: Dunker und Humblot.
and 1941. The social life of a modern community. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.Google Scholar
and 1948. The status system of a modern community. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.Google Scholar
2014. ‘Common sense and sociological explanations’, American Journal of Sociology, 120: 313–51.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
1892. Die Verhältnisse der Landarbeiter in ostelbischen Deutschland. Leipzig: Schriften des Vereins für Sozialpolitik.Google Scholar
1906/1949. ‘A critique of Eduard Meyer's methodological views’, in The methodology of the social sciences. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.Google Scholar
1908. ‘Zur Psychophysik der industriellen Arbeit’, Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik 27: 730–70.Google Scholar
1921/1948. ‘Politics as a vocation’, in and (eds), From Max Weber: essays in sociology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.Google Scholar
1922/1948. ‘Science as a vocation’, in and (eds), From Max Weber: essays in sociology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.Google Scholar
and 2010. The spirit level: why equality is better for everyone, 2nd edn. London: Penguin.Google Scholar
1982. Europe and the people without history. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.Google Scholar
2007. ‘Evidence in medicine and evidence-based medicine’, Philosophy Compass 6: 981–1022.Google Scholar
(ed.) 2005. Approaches to class analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 2010. ‘Survey research and social science: History, current practice and future prospects’, in and (eds), Handbook of survey research. Bingley: Emerald.Google Scholar
1961. ‘The oversocialized conception of man in modern sociology’, American Sociological Review 26: 183–93.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2000. ‘Some comments on “Sequence analysis and optimal matching methods in sociology: Review and prospect”’, Sociological Methods and Research 29: 41–64.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2000. ‘Demography: past, present and future’, Journal of the American Statistical Association 95: 670–3.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2005. ‘Methodological contradictions in contemporary sociology’, Michigan Quarterly Review, XLIV: 506–11.Google Scholar
2007. ‘Otis Dudley Duncan's legacy: the demographic approach to quantitative reasoning in social science’, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 25: 141–56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1968. Public knowledge: the social dimension of science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar