Constructing Social Theories

by Al Stinchcombe and Arthur L. Stinchcombe

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0155134558
• ISBN13: 9780155134553
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.