PDF Free Download | Theory Construction and Model-Building Skills: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists by James Jaccard and Jacob Jacoby
Contents of Theory Construction and Model-Building Skills
- Part I. Basic Concepts
- Introduction
- The Nature of Understanding
- Science as an Approach to Understanding
- Part II. Core Processes
- Creativity and the Generation of Ideas
- Focusing Concepts
- Clarifying Relationships Using Thought Experiments
- Part III. Frameworks for Theory Construction
- Causal Models
- Mathematical Modeling
- Simulation as a Theory Development Method
- Grounded and Emergent Theory
- Historically Influential Systems of Thought
- Part IV. Concluding Issues
- Reading and Writing about Theories
- Epilogue
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