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100			_aDavid, Matthew
245			_aBuilding bridges in social research: narrative, logic and simulation
260			_c2006
300			_ap.349-57.
362			_aMay
520			_aThe 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			_aResearch
650			_aSocial research
773			_aInternational Sociology
909			_a70153
999			_c70153 _d70153