Cumulative social inquiry : transforming novelty into innovation
Many social researchers today put a premium on novel perspectives, original topics of study, and new approaches. The importance of incrementally advancing established lines of theorizing and research is often overlooked.
xiv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781593856533, 9781593858339, 1593856539, 1593858337
175289913
Introduction
On differentiation and specialization
Disjunctions between social theory and quantitative measurement
Explication of texts : a useful tool
Components of cumulative social inquiry
The chapters
Cumulative social inquiry : theoretical paradigms, social research, and empirically based theorizing
Scientific communities and theoretical paradigms
Exemplars and theories
Conclusions
Linking quality and quantity
Diachronic articulation : quantitative first, then qualitative
Synchronic articulation
Diachronic articulation : qualitative first, then quantitative
Conclusions
Building quantitative studies on the qualitative
Conceptual frameworks
Items for indexes
Vignettes and factorial surveys
Analysis plans
Evidence-based policy
Conclusions
Qualitative and quantitative social structural theorizing
A logic and vocabulary for structural theorizing
Qualitative structural inquiries
Quantitative structural inquiries
Conclusions
Statistical methods and process models
Structural statistical methods
Process models
Conclusions
Transforming novelty into innovation
A theoretically informed, data-first strategy : cognitive dissonance
A use-inspired strategy : collective action
A theory-first division-of-labor strategy : postindustrial societies
Theory-driven survey research on political participation
Conclusions
Conclusion