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

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

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

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

Empirical Investigations of Social Space

• Paperback | Engels | Methodos | nr. 15
• Provides applications of Bourdieu's methodology of social space and social fields Includes applications of Geometric Data Analysis, especially corresp... Lees meer

Empirical Investigations of Social Space

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 15
• Provides applications of Bourdieu's methodology of social space and social fields Includes applications of Geometric Data Analysis, especially corresp... Lees meer

Causality and Causal Modelling in the Social Sciences

Federica Russo

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 5
• The anti-causal prophecies of last century have been disproved. Causality is neither a 'relic of a bygone' nor 'another fetish of modern science'; it ... 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

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

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

Towards Bayesian Model-Based Demography

Jakub Bijak

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 17
• Part I: Preliminaries: Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Uncertainty and complexity: towards model-based demography.- Part II: Elements of the mode... Lees meer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth

Éric Brian, Marie Jaisson

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 4
• Since the 18th century, one phenomenon, the proportion of the sexes at birth among human beings, has contributed to various developments such as the c... Lees meer

Methodology and Epistemology of Multilevel Analysis

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 2
• 3 the observation focus on aggregate or individual behaviours? Will the meth- ods used to identify the relationships between the values measured be th... Lees meer

The Explanatory Power of Models

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodos | nr. 1
• Empirical research often lacks theory. This book progressively works out a method of constructing models which can bridge the gap between empirical an... Lees meer