This accessible, hands-on text has now been revised and updated, with expanded coverage of topics including how theory may emerge from exploratory data analysis. The book prepares graduate students, new researchers, and even seasoned investigators to develop their own theories and build on existing ones. Concrete strategies are provided to help readers generate ideas, define constructs, and think through relationships and processes that link constructs. Compelling examples from multiple disciplines illustrate the use of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods orientations to theory construction. The text also offers practical advice for writing effectively about theories in papers and grant applications. Readers learn by doing via application and concept exercises, demonstration boxes, and practical guidelines.
Contents:
I. Basic Concepts
1. Introduction
2. The Nature of Understanding
3. Science as an Approach to Understanding sample
II. Core Processes
4. Creativity and the Generation of Ideas
5. Focusing Concepts
6. Thought Experiments for Variable Relationships
III. Frameworks for Theory Construction
7. Causal Models
8. Mathematical Modeling
9. Simulation as a Theory Development Method
10. Emergent Theory: Qualitative/Mixed Method Approaches
11. Emergent Theory: Quantitative Approaches
12. Historically Influential Systems of Thought
IV. Theory at the Level of Measurement
13. Theory and Measurement: General Frameworks
14. Types of Measurement Strategies
V. Concluding Issues
15. Theory Revision
16. Reading and Writing about Theories
17. Epilogue
Statement of Responsibility:
James Jaccard, Jacob Jacoby
Year:
[2020]
Publisher:
New York, [New York] ; London, The Guilford Press
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ISBN:
978-1-4625-4243-7
Description:
Second edition, xxii, 522 Seiten, Illustrationen
Tags:
Social Sciences, Research Methods, Scientific modelling, Theory, Wissenschaftliche Methode, Sozialwissenschaft, Scientific Method, Forschungsmethode, Modellierung , Statistical specification, Econometric specification, Theorie, Theoretisches Modell
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Language:
eng
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