Theory Construction and Model Building Skills A Practical Guide for Social Scientists 1st Edition by James Jaccard, Jacob Jacoby 1606233408 9781606233405

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ISBN 10: 1606233408

ISBN 13: 9781606233405

Author: James Jaccard, Jacob Jacoby

Meeting a crucial need for graduate students and newly minted researchers, this innovative text provides hands-on tools for generating ideas and translating them into formal theories. It is illustrated with numerous practical examples drawn from multiple social science disciplines and research settings. The authors offer clear guidance for defining constructs, thinking through relationships and processes that link constructs, and deriving new theoretical models (or building on existing ones) based on those relationships. Step by step, they show readers how to use causal analysis, mathematical modeling, simulations, and grounded and emergent approaches to theory construction. A chapter on writing about theories contains invaluable advice on crafting effective papers and grant applications.

Theory Construction and Model Building Skills A Practical Guide for Social Scientists 1st Table of contents:

PArt I. BAsIc concePts

1. Introduction 3

2. The Nature of Understanding 6

3. Science as an Approach to Understanding 22

PArt II. core Processes

4. Creativity and the Generation of Ideas 39

5. Focusing Concepts 75

6. Clarifying Relationships Using Thought Experiments 91

PArt III. FrAmeworks For theory constructIon

7. Causal Models 137

8. Mathematical Modeling 177

9. Simulation as a Theory Development Method 237

10. Grounded and Emergent Theory 256

11. Historically Influential Systems of Thought 295

PArt IV. concludIng Issues

12. Reading and Writing about Theories 331

13. Epilogu

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