Probability and Social Science Methodological Relationships between the two Approaches /

• Main Author: Courgeau, Daniel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences ; 10
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Statistical Theory and Methods.

This work examines in depth the methodological relationships that probability and statistics have maintained with the social sciences from their emergence. It covers both the history of thought and current methods. First it examines in detail the history of the different paradigms and axioms for pro...

Table of Contents:

• General Introduction
• Part 1: From Probability to Social Sciences
• Introduction to Part 1
• Chapter 1: The Objectivist Approach
• Chapter 2: The Epistemic Approach: Subjectivist Interpretation
• Chapter 3: The Epistemic Approach: Logicist Interpretation
• Conclusion of Part 1
• Part II: From Population Sciences to Probability
• Introduction to Part II
• Chapter 4: The Dispersion of Measures in Population Sciences
• Chapter 5: Closer Links between Population Sciences and Probability
• Conclusion of Part II
• General Conclusion
• Glossary
• References
• Subject Index
• Author Index.