00962pab a2200169 454500 180718b2006 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d David, Matthew Building bridges in social research: narrative, logic and simulation 2006 p.349-57. May 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. Research Social research International Sociology 70153 70153 70153 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 21, Issue no: 3 AR70609 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR