The Elements of Social Scientific Thinking - Softcover

Hoover, Kenneth; Donovan, Todd

 
9780534614119: The Elements of Social Scientific Thinking

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A concise introduction to the fundamental concepts of social scientific thinking, this classic text-a favorite with students for over 25 years-makes scientific thinking, research methods and statistics accessible to undergraduates at a common sense level.

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"What Strunk and Whiteas little book on style is to clear writing, Hooveras is to clear thinking in the social sciences. A pedagogical gem."

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This introduction to social scientific reasoning offers an interdisciplinary approach to the material and assumes no previous background in statistics. The basic concepts, vocabulary, objectives, and methodologies are all explained. Appendices present two recent examples of social scientific writing. The authors teach political science at Western W

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