Realism and probability

Making Realism Work: Realist Social Theory and Empirical Research

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 67-86

  Williams, Malcolm ^a   Dyer, Wendy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 27444439788     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203624289     Document Type: Chapter

References (28)

1. Aldenderfer, M. and Blashfield, R. (1984) Cluster Analysis. Sage University Paper 44, Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
2. Archer, M. (1995) Realist Social Theory: the Morphogenetic Approach, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Bhaskar, R. (1978) A Realist Theory of Science, 2nd edn, London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
4. Bhaskar, R. (1998) The Possibility of Naturalism, 3rd edn, London: Routledge.
5. Blalock, H. (1964) Causal Inference in Nonexperimental Research, Chapel Hill, NCA: University of North Carolina Press.
6. Byrne, D. (2000) 'What are we measuring when we measure?', Draft paper, ESRC Realism Seminar, Leeds, 16 February (unpublished).
7. Byrne, D. (2002) Interpreting Quantitative Data, London: Sage.
8. Everitt, B. (1993) Cluster Analysis, London: Arnold.
9. Gillies, D. (1995) Topper's contribution to the philosophy of probability', in A. O'Hear (ed.) Karl Popper: Philosophy and Problems, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
10. Gunn, J., Maden, A. and Swinton, M. (1991) 'Treatment needs of prisoners with psychiatric disorders', British Medical Journal, 303, 338-341.
11. Hall, J. (1996) 'Measurement and the Two Cultures of Sociology', in S. Turner (ed.) Social Theory and Sociology: The Classics and Beyond, Oxford: Blackwell.
12. Harré, R. (1986) Varieties of Realism: A Rationale for the Natural Sciences, Oxford: Blackwell.
13. Layder, D. (1990) The Realist Image in Social Science, London: Macmillan.
14. Layder, D. (1994) Understanding Social Theory, London: Sage.
15. Lipton, P. (1991) Inference to the Best Explanation, London: Routledge.
16. Mellor, D. (1971) The Matter of Chance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
17. Nagel, E. (1979) The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation, Indianapolis: Hackett.
18. Outhwaite, W. (1987) New Philosophies of Social Science, London: Macmillan.
19. Papineau, D. (1993) Philosophical Naturalism, Oxford: Blackwell.
20. Pawson, R. (1989) A Measure for Measures: A Manifesto for Empirical Sociology, London: Routledge.
21. Popper, K.R. (1957) 'The propensity interpretation of the calculus of probability, and the quantum theory', in S. Körner (ed.) Observation and Interpretation, London: Butterworth Scientific.
22. Popper, K.R. (1959) 'The propensity interpretation of probability', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 10: 25-42.
23. Popper, K.R. (1979) Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
24. Popper, K.R. (1983) Realism and the Aim of Science (from the Postscript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery), London: Routledge.
25. Sayer, A. (1992) Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach, 2nd edn, London: Routledge.
26. Tacq, J. (1997) Multivariate Analysis Techniques in Social Science Research, London: Sage.
27. von Mises, R. (1951) Probability, Statistics and Truth, 2nd edn, London: George, Allen and Unwin.
28. Weller, M.P.I. and Weller, B.G.A. (1988) 'Crime and mental illness', Medicine, Science and Law, 28, 38-49.