Constructing Social Theories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226774848)

Constructing Social Theories presents to the reader a range of strategies for constructing theories, and in a clear, rigorous, and imaginative manner, illustrates how they can be applied. Arthur L. Stinchcombe argues that theories should not be invented in the abstract--or applied a priori to a problem--but should be dictated by the nature of the data to be explained. This work was awarded the Sorokin prize by the American Sociological Association as the book that made an outstanding contribution to the progress of sociology in 1970.


Author: Arthur L. Stinchcombe
ISBN-10: 0226774848
ISBN-13: 9780226774848
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 07/15/1987
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.68h x 5.44w x 0.67d