Transferability and naturalistic generalization: New generalizability concepts for social science or old wine in new bottles?

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 321-337

  Hellström, Tomas ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cause effects; Generalizability; Naturalized generalization; Social categories; Transferability; Unification

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449162354     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-006-9048-0     Document Type: Article

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