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Exploring Social Processes: Statistical Methods for Sociological Research

Exploring Social Processes: Statistical Methods for Sociological Research

Kimura, Kunihiro

Hardcover

Series: Behaviormetrics: Quantitative Approaches to Human Behavior, Book 41

Gifts & Stationery GeneralGeneral Sociology

PREORDER - Expected ship date July 13, 2027

ISBN10: 981130730X
ISBN13: 9789811307300
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jul 13 2027
Pages: 300
Language: English

This book advocates an exploratory approach to survey data analysis, rather than confirmatory approaches, which many other textbooks explicitly or implicitly recommend.

Most survey data, especially attitudinal data, might not be suitable for causal analysis. Descriptive analyses of survey data will, however, expand our understanding of the social mechanisms in which people's attitudes and beliefs mediate institutional settings and their actions. Thus, we should pursue an exploratory approach when studying social processes in terms of survey data analysis. In this approach, hypothesis tests, significance tests, or statistical modeling should be used in a way that serves to continually expand on and refine our theoretical hypotheses on social mechanisms.

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