Towards Bayesian Model-Based Demography

Jakub Bijak

• Paperback | Engels | Methodos | nr. 17
• This open access book presents a ground-breaking approach to developing micro-foundations for demography and migration studies. It offers a unique and... Lees meer

Causality and Causal Modelling in the Social Sciences

Federica Russo

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 5
• This investigation into causal modelling presents the rationale of causality, i.e. the notion that guides causal reasoning in causal modelling. It is ... Lees meer

Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 7
• Innovation is nowadays a question of life and death for many of the economies of the western world. Yet, due to our generally reductionist scientific ... Lees meer

Towards Bayesian Model-Based Demography

Jakub Bijak

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 17
• This open access book presents a ground-breaking approach to developing micro-foundations for demography and migration studies. It offers a unique and... Lees meer

Multilevel Network Analysis for the Social Sciences

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 12
• This volume provides new insights into the functioning of organizational, managerial and market societies. Multilevel analysis and social network anal... Lees meer

Empirical Investigations of Social Space

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 15
• This book provides an in-depth view on Bourdieu's empirical work, thereby specially focusing on the construction of the social space and including the... Lees meer

Understanding Human Life

Daniel Courgeau

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 19
• This book addresses the challenge of understanding human life. It compares our life experience with the attempts to grasp it by astrologers, eugenicis... Lees meer

Understanding Human Life

Daniel Courgeau

• Paperback | Engels | Methodos | nr. 19
• This book addresses the challenge of understanding human life. It compares our life experience with the attempts to grasp it by astrologers, eugenicis... Lees meer

Hierarchy in Natural and Social Sciences

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 3
• Hierarchy is a form of organisation of complex systems that rely on or produce a strong differentiation in capacity (power and size) between the parts... Lees meer

Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling

Eric Silverman

• Paperback | Engels | Methodos | nr. 13
• This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain. The opening cha... Lees meer

The Institutional Compass: Method, Use and Scope

Michèle Indira Friend

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 18
• Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. General Introduction.- Chapter 2. Vocabulary.- Chapter 3. The State of the Art in Decision Making.- Part II: The Met... Lees meer

Audit Studies: Behind the Scenes with Theory, Method, and Nuance

• Paperback | Engels | Methodos | nr. 14
• Examines methodological problems various social sciences are facing when using audit studies Provides an in-depth overview of the theory, history, met... Lees meer

Empirical Investigations of Social Space

• Paperback | Engels | Methodos | nr. 15
• This book provides an in-depth view on Bourdieu's empirical work, thereby specially focusing on the construction of the social space and including the... Lees meer

Researching Elites and Power

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 16
• This open access book describes how elite studies theoretically and methodologically construct their object, i.e. how particular conceptualizations of... Lees meer

The Institutional Compass: Method, Use and Scope

Michèle Indira Friend

• Paperback | Engels | Methodos | nr. 18
• Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. General Introduction.- Chapter 2. Vocabulary.- Chapter 3. The State of the Art in Decision Making.- Part II: The Met... Lees meer

Audit Studies: Behind the Scenes with Theory, Method, and Nuance

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 14
• Examines methodological problems various social sciences are facing when using audit studies Provides an in-depth overview of the theory, history, met... Lees meer

Are Statistics Only Made of Data?

Éric Brian

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 20
• This book examines several epistemological regimes in studies of numerical data over the last four centuries. It distinguishes these regimes and mobil... Lees meer

Researching Elites and Power

• Paperback | Engels | Methodos | nr. 16
• This open access book describes how elite studies theoretically and methodologically construct their object, i.e. how particular conceptualizations of... Lees meer

Multilevel Network Analysis for the Social Sciences

• Paperback | Engels | Methodos | nr. 12
• This volume provides new insights into the functioning of organizational, managerial and market societies. Multilevel analysis and social network anal... Lees meer

Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling

Eric Silverman

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 13
• This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain. The opening cha... Lees meer

The Explanatory Power of Models

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 1
• This book progressively works out a method of constructing models which can bridge the gap between empirical and theoretical research in the social sc... Lees meer

Methodology and Epistemology of Multilevel Analysis

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 2
• The purpose of the multilevel approach is to understand individual behaviors taking into account the social context in which they occur. This book dea... Lees meer

The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth

Éric Brian, Marie Jaisson

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 4
• This is an attempt to renew our links with the oldest traditions of scholarly thinking, but is also a well-tempered reflection on today's work in obje... Lees meer