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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
David, Matthew |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Building bridges in social research: narrative, logic and simulation |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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2006 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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p.349-57. |
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| Dates of publication and/or sequential designation |
May |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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The three books examined in this review address the question of causal explanation in the non-experimental social sciences. All three books focus attention on the need to address `causation' in terms of complex processes rather than through prediction. Debates over the meaning of `mechanism' (Stinchcombe), `narrative' (Elliott) and `emergence' (Gilbert and Troitzsch) cross over each other, and are in part alternative ways of describing the same thing, even while such alternatives cannot be easily rendered compatible. - Reproduced. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Research |
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Social research |
| 773 ## - HOST ITEM ENTRY |
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International Sociology |
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