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Qualitative and quantitative social research : papers in honor of Paul F. Lazarsfeld

Title
Qualitative and quantitative social research : papers in honor of Paul F. Lazarsfeld / edited by Robert K. Merton, James S. Coleman, Peter H. Rossi.
ISBN
0029209307
9780029209301
0029203907
Published
New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan Publishers, c1979.
Physical Description
xviii, 413 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Gray Social Thought 1705: Number line on title page verso indicates 1st printing: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Dust jacket. Presentation inscription from Bob Merton [Robert K. Merton] to Mike [Aaron?]. From the library of Bradford H. Gray.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 05, 2003
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
pt. 1. Paul F. Lazarsfeld: work-style and thought-style: PFL: hedgehog or fox? / Marie Jahoda
The Vienna years / Hans Zeisel
Recollections of PFL / Bernard Bailyn
Remembering Paul Lazarsfeld / Robert K. Merton
Organizational innovation for social science research and training / Charles Y. Glock
The evolution of a thesis: utilization of social research as a sociological problem / Ann K. Pasanella
pt. 2. Quantitative methods and reasoning: Generating models as a research strategy / Raymond Boudon
The meaning of causal ordering / Herbert A. Simon
Panels and time series analysis: Markov chains and autogressive processes / T.W. Anderson
Purposive actors and mutual effects / James S. Coleman
The analysis of qualitative variables using more parsimonious quasi-independence models, scaling models, and latent structures / Leo A. Goodman
The choice axiom after twenty years / R. Duncan Luce
Social exchange and choice / Anthony Oberschall
Vignette analysis: uncovering the normative structure of complex judgments / Peter H. Rossi
pt. 3. Qualitative methods and reasoning: Marx's general and middle-range theories of social conflict / Lee Benson
Ethical and practical dilemmas of fieldwork in academic settings: a personal memoir / David Riesman
On following in someone's footsteps: two examples of Lazarsfeldian methodology / Hanan C. Selvin
Disposition concepts in behavioral science / Morris Rosenberg
pt. 4. Substantive social research: Immigration, citizenship, and social change: intention and outcome in American history / Sigmund Diamond
The effects of unemployment: a neglected problem in modern social research / Herbert H. Hyman
With what effect?: the lessons from international communications research / Elihu Katz
The changing social origins of American academics / Seymour Martin Lipset and Everett C. Ladd, Jr.
The professional and academic context of professional schools / Peter M. Blau, Rebecca Z. Margulies, and John B. Cullen.
Genre/Form
Bibliographies.
Festschriften.
Also listed under
Lazarsfeld, Paul F., 1901-1976, honouree.
Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003, editor.
Coleman, James S., 1926-1995, editor.
Rossi, Peter H. (Peter Henry), 1921-2006, editor.
Bradford H. Gray Collection in the History of Social Thought (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
United States New York (State) New York.
England London.
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