'You might think that dancing doesn't have a lot to do with social research, and doing social research is probably why you picked this book up in the first place. But trust me. Salsa dancing is a practice as well as a metaphor for a kind of research that will make your life easier and better'. Savvy, witty, and sensible, this unique book is both a handbook for defining and comp...(展开全部)

"You might think that dancing doesn’t have a lot to do with social research, and doing social research is probably why you picked this book up in the first place. But trust me. Salsa dancing is a practice as well as a metaphor for a kind of research that will make your life easier and better.” Savvy, witty, and sensible, this unique book is both a handbook for defining and comp...(展开全部)

Bayesian methods are increasingly being used in the social sciences, as the problems encountered lend themselves so naturally to the subjective qualities of Bayesian methodology. This book provides an accessible introduction to Bayesian methods, tailored specifically for social science students. It contains lots of real examples from political science, psychology, sociology, an...(展开全部)

Max Weber，The Methodology of the Social Sciences，edited and translated by Edward A. Shils and Henry A. Finch, with a foreword by Edward Shils,New York：The Free Press,1949.

尼尔·丁·斯梅尔塞(1930～ ),美国社会学家:本书是作者研究社会科学方法论问题的一部力作,对战后在西方社会科学领域,发展起来的一系列比较方法进行系统分析,追溯它们来龙去脉,评判它们的是非功过;而且对这些方法的理论基础、实用价值以及未来发展方法,都作了深刻阐述。

尼尔·丁·斯梅尔塞(1930～ ),美国社会学家:本书是作者研究社会科学方法论问题的一部力作,对战后在西方社会科学领域,发展起来的一系列比较方法进行系统分析,追溯它们来龙去脉,评判它们的是非功过;而且对这些方法的理论基础、实用价值以及未来发展方法,都作了深刻阐述。

Agresti and Finleypresent statistical methods in a style that emphasizes their concepts and their application to the social sciences rather than the mathematics and computational details behind them. Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences, 4e presents an introduction to statistical methods for students majoring in social science disciplines. No previous knowledge...(展开全部)

One of the fruits of the Scientific Revolution was the idea of a social science - a science of government, of individual behavior, and of society - that would operate in ways comparable to the newly triumphant natural sciences. Thus was set in motion a long and often convoluted chain of two-way interactions that still have implications for both scholarship and public policy. Th...(展开全部)

The core of this book consists of two long essays. The first focuses on the role of analogies as linking factors between the two realms. Examples are drawn from the physics of rational mechanics and energy physics and from the biology of cell theory. The second essay looks closely at the relations between the natural and the social sciences in the period of the Scientific Revol...(展开全部)

玛丽·道格拉斯（Mary Douglas），英国著名人类学家、社会理论家，代表作包括《洁净与危险》《自然象征》《风险的接受：社会科学的视角》等。她也是最早对工业社会风险感兴趣的人类学家之一。她的框架名为“文化理论”，解释了人们为何害怕不同的风险，并将他们的行为与他们所属群体的文化联系起来。