TY - BOOK AU - Stinchcombe, Arthur L TI - The logic of social research SN - 9788131610923 U1 - 300.72 PY - 2005/// CY - Jaipur PB - Rawat Publication KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Sociology Methodology; Sociology Research Methodology N1 - Reprint, 2019; index N2 - Arthur L. Stinchcombe has earned a reputation as a leading practitioner of methodology in sociology and related disciplines. Throughout his distinguished career he has championed the idea that to be an effective sociologist, one must use many methods. This incisive work introduces students to the logic of those methods. The Logic of Social Research orients students to a set of logical problems that all methods must address to study social causation. Almost all sociological theory asserts that some social conditions produce other social conditions, but the theoretical links between causes and effects are not easily supported by observation. ER -