This text was conceived in order to fill a need for a fairly sophisticated higher-level general work on methodology which would be appropriate for advanced graduate students in sociology, social psychology, political science, and anthropology. The focus of the book is on measurement, design, and analysis. We have assumed that students are familiar with many of the data-collection techniques us…
This short book represents an effort to pull together materials on causal inferences that are widely scattered in the philo- sophical, statistical, and social science literatures. There are, of course, a vast number of writings on the subject of causality, and no brief attempt to summarize these works could hope to succeed.