New Methods for Social History

ISBN-13: 9780521655996 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 168 str.

Larry J. Griffin; Larry Griffen; Josepha Sherman

Opis

During the past two decades sociologists have developed a range of new research methods that could be of much use to social historians. The present collection of essays introduces some of the most interesting of these new methods: event structure analysis, words-to-numbers, network analysis, qualitative comparative analysis, fuzzy logic, and recursive regression. All essays are written by outstanding experts, address noninitiated readers and use as little jargon as possible. Methods are explained through the use of historical case studies; annotated topical bibliographies have been added.

Spis treści

Introduction Larry Griffen and Marcel van der Linden; 1. Temporally recursive regression and social historical inquiry: an example of cross-movement militancy spillover Larry Isaac, Larry Christiansen, Jamie Miller and Tim Nickel; 2. Using event history analysis in historical research: with illustrations from a study of the passage of women's protective legislation Holly J. McCammon; 3. Spatial analysis Glenn Deane, E. M. Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay; 4. Fuzziness in multivariate classification of historical data Leonid Borodkin; 5. Narrative as data: linguistics and statistical tools for the quantitative study of historical events Roberto Franzosi; 6. The logic of qualitative analysis Charles C. Ragin; 7. Historical social network analysis Charles Wetherell; 8. Historical inference and event-structure analysis Larry J. Griffen and Robert R. Korstad.