alcoholism 发表于 2025-3-28 18:19:34

Book 2020nvestigation and reform. But it still did not yet have a ‘science of society.’ When, in the early 1900s, a small band of enthusiasts got together to address this situation, the scene was set for a grand synthesis. No such synthesis ever took place and, instead, British sociology has followed a resol

大约冬季 发表于 2025-3-28 18:55:45

Introductionn statistics and sociology is very much a current issue, still a topic of heated debate, the study of this relationship is of genuine historical importance beyond any concerns that exist in British sociology at present. British sociology’s response to statistics can also be seen as a response to modern science.

减震 发表于 2025-3-29 01:52:30

The Traditional Viewpoint—Philip Abrams’ , (1968)cause it frustrated the later development of British academic sociology. Abrams’ interpretation displays major weaknesses, not least a bias in favour of theoretical sociology together with a limited understanding of statistics, seeing it merely as a tool for bureaucratic government.

EXULT 发表于 2025-3-29 05:56:21

Sociology and Statistics in the Sociological Societyorate contemporary statistical methods and outlook into the newly formed subject of sociology. Although the Society did not adopt a clear-cut anti-statistical position, their work and approach fostered a general perception of incompatibility between statistics and sociology that was to shape the long-term future of British sociology.

文字 发表于 2025-3-29 09:43:59

Positivism and Statistics in British Sociologyxample that it was politics and preferential attitudes that most strongly determined the views and treatment of research methods among British sociologists. These disputes helped foster ‘an anti-quantitative culture’ in British sociology but also heightened awareness of the serious implications of such attitudes.

conspicuous 发表于 2025-3-29 13:15:58

A New Perspective—The Evolution of Statistics, 1660–1935critiques which scholars mounted against the empirical method and quantification and in defence of the literary and philosophical tradition. Academic sociologists in Britain in the twentieth century have used very similar critiques to justify their own non-statistical (in some cases anti-statistical) approach.

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The Idea of Science in Early Nineteenth-Century Britainart Mill who were the major writers on the methodology and philosophy of science at the time. This analysis will serve as the basis for an assessment of nineteenth-century statistics within the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the Statistical Society of London which follows in the next two chapters.

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The Statistical Work of Section F of the BAAS: Between the Hammer of Politics and the Anvil of Scien values becomes less significant in the long term once we take into consideration that, in the 1830s, for the first time, this distinction was made possible due to the availability of large-scale statistical data.

CUB 发表于 2025-3-30 00:12:11

The Legacy of the Statistical Society of London—, and Beyondall social science projects that emerged in the early nineteenth century, it is only the statistical movement that can be said to have come close to being scientific in practice, as far as this was possible in the conditions in which they worked and according to the contemporary understanding of science.

精致 发表于 2025-3-30 04:59:49

The Post-war Expansion of the British Higher Education System and Its Impact on Sociologydly academic subjects. In a very short space of time, sociology, which could easily match this profile, turned from a small and unattractive subject, to one of the most popular academic subjects. The number of sociology students, staff, departments and outputs grew to a remarkable degree.
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