Cumulative social inquiry : transforming novelty into innovation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Smith, Robert B. (Robert Benjamin), 1936-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Guilford Press, [2008]
Subjects:	Social sciences > Research.
Online Access:	Contributor biographical information Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Introduction
On differentiation and specialization
Disjunctions between social theory and quantitative measurement
Explication of texts : a useful tool
Components of cumulative social inquiry
The chapters
Cumulative social inquiry : theoretical paradigms, social research, and empirically based theorizing
Scientific communities and theoretical paradigms
Exemplars and theories
Conclusions
Linking quality and quantity
Diachronic articulation : quantitative first, then qualitative
Synchronic articulation
Diachronic articulation : qualitative first, then quantitative
Conclusions
Building quantitative studies on the qualitative
Conceptual frameworks
Items for indexes
Vignettes and factorial surveys
Analysis plans
Evidence-based policy
Conclusions
Qualitative and quantitative social structural theorizing
A logic and vocabulary for structural theorizing
Qualitative structural inquiries
Quantitative structural inquiries
Conclusions
Statistical methods and process models
Structural statistical methods
Process models
Conclusions
Transforming novelty into innovation
A theoretically informed, data-first strategy : cognitive dissonance
A use-inspired strategy : collective action
A theory-first division-of-labor strategy : postindustrial societies
Theory-driven survey research on political participation
Conclusions
Conclusion.