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Unmeasured Information and the Methodology of Social Scientific Inquiry (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
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Unmeasured Information and the Methodology of Social Scientific Inquiry (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
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The purpose of this book is to demonstrate that it is possible to
do meaningful, significant, and sophisticated analysis in social
science when the variables under consideration are, given present
knowledge, incapable of measurement. No effort to measure' the
unmeasurable is attempted. Rather, techniques for model building,
such as the construction of simultaneous and periodic relation
systems that do not require the existence of measures are explored.
In addition to presenting a methodology enabling the investigator
to deal with the unmeasured, many examples are provided that
illustrate how those methods may actually be used. In addition, the
book addresses the following: Where has the overwhelming focus on
the quantitative (often to the exclusion of the unmeasurable or
qualitative) in social science in particular, and in modern
societies in general, come from? How can the use of the
formalizations of model building, both in the presence and absence
of measurement, be justified in social science? What are the
dangers of using proxy variables in general in the construction of
models, and what are the dangers of treating variables that are
only ordinally gauged as if they were cardinally or intervally
measured? Finally, when only ordinal calibrations of some variables
are available, what analytical methods may legitimately be employed
to deal with them?
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