While heated arguments between practitioners of qualitative and quantitative research have begun to test the very integrity of the social sciences, Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba have produced a farsighted and timely book that promises to sharpen and strengthen a wide range of research performed in this field. These leading scholars, each representing diverse acade...
While heated arguments between practitioners of qualitative and quantitative research have begun to test the very integrity of the social sciences, Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba have produced a farsighted and timely book that promises to sharpen and strengthen a wide range of research performed in this field. These leading scholars, each representing diverse academic traditions, have developed a unified approach to valid descriptive and causal inference in qualitative research, where numerical measurement is either impossible or undesirable. Their book demonstrates that the same logic of inference underlies both good quantitative and good qualitative research designs, and their approach applies equally to each. Providing precepts intended to stimulate and discipline thought, the authors explore issues related to framing research questions, measuring the accuracy of data and uncertainty of empirical inferences, discovering causal effects, and generally improving qualitative research. Among the specific topics they address are interpretation and inference, comparative case studies, constructing causal theories, dependent and explanatory variables, the limits of random selection, selection bias, and errors in measurement. Mathematical notation is occasionally used to clarify concepts, but no prior knowledge of mathematics or statistics is assumed. The unified logic of inference that this book explicates will be enormously useful to qualitative researchers of all traditions and substantive fields.
作者简介
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Gary King is Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard Data Center at Harvard University.
Robert O. Keohane is Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University.
Sidney Verba is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library.
Karl Pearson (1892: 16) explained that "the field of science is unlimited; its material is endless; every group of natural phe- nomena, every phase of social life, every stage of past or present develop- ment is material for science. The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material." (查看原文)
Indeed, the distinctive characteristic that sets social science apart from casual observation is that social science seeks to arrive at valid inferences by the
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A strong research design requires both qualitative and quantitative research, a research question that poses an important and real question that will contribute to the base of knowledge about this par...A strong research design requires both qualitative and quantitative research, a research question that poses an important and real question that will contribute to the base of knowledge about this particular subject, and a literature review that develops this question through at least twenty years of literature, from which hypotheses (theory-driven(展开)
这本《社会科学中的研究设计》（Designing Social Inquiry：Scientific Inference in Qualitiative Research）方法课和导师都推荐阅读，因为对定量方法确实陌生，所以打算完整读一遍。 该中译本是我自去年开始中英对照读学术书以来，遇到翻译最糟糕的一回。许多细微的表达、从...
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本文的工作是一个简单的比较，通过比较来厘清Designing Social Inquiry（第三章）、A Tale of Tow Cultures（第一章）、和Interpretation and Social Knowledge （第五章）三本书中对于因果机制 （causal mechanism）的不同理解。本文比较的起点是三本书中因果机制的定义及其建...
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Every researcher and student in the field of political science or discipline of social science should know this famous text book as well as its funny other name "KKV". It is no less than a miracle in the methodological works which have contributed a lot t...
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Chapter1 The Science in Social Science Quantitative research uses numbers and statistical methods. It tends to be based on numerical measurements of specific aspects of phenomena; it abstracts from particular instances to seek general description or to test...
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1 有用 豆友1405477 2018-02-05 20:42:40
方法论圣经
0 有用 舒壬 2013-06-25 10:25:59
Keohane居然也有参与撰写。看上去像是社会学方法论的葵花宝典呀，十分感谢前辈推荐的说。
1 有用 梦溪 2017-06-16 07:57:27
it's unfortunate that the influential book has fundamental misconceptions of qualitative research and its foundational assumptions are wrong
0 有用 Koh Rok 2013-04-17 16:59:54
值得读，因果推断的根本难题尤其需要了解。但无论从对定性研究的了解、对因果推断的看法、建议都值得商榷。作者苦口婆心，无非是要把定性研究变成定量研究2.0
0 有用 完颜穆尔登格 2019-09-24 02:45:28
A strong research design requires both qualitative and quantitative research, a research question that poses an important and real question that will contribute to the base of knowledge about this par... A strong research design requires both qualitative and quantitative research, a research question that poses an important and real question that will contribute to the base of knowledge about this particular subject, and a literature review that develops this question through at least twenty years of literature, from which hypotheses (theory-driven (展开)