The Explanatory Power of Models Bridging the Gap between Empirical and Theoretical Research in the Social Sciences
Empirical research often lacks theory. This book progressively works out a method of constructing models which can bridge the gap between empirical and theoretical research in the social sciences. This might improve the explanatory power of models. The issue is quite novel, and it benefited from a t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2002, 2002
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2002 |
| Series: | Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- General Introduction
- 1 The determinants of infant mortality: how far are conceptual frameworks really modelled ?
- 2 The role of statistical and formal techniques in experimental psychology
- 3 Explanatory models in suicide research: explaining relationships
- 4 Attitudes towards ethnic minorities and and support for ethnic discrimination, A test of complementary models
- 5 Computer simulation methods to model macroeconomics
- 6 The explanatory power of Artificial Neural Networks
- 7 On modelling in human geography
- 8 The explanatory power of migration models
- 9 The role of models in comparative politics
- 10 Elementary mathematical modelization of games and sports
- 11 Computer modelling of theory, explanation for the 21st century
- 12 The logicist analysis of explanatory theories in archaeology
- General Conclusion
- Name index