Designing Social Inquiry

加里·金，美国哈佛大学阿尔伯特·魏斯赫德三世(Albert J.Weatherhead III)学院教授，曾是美国国家科学院、美国统计学学会、美国科学促进会、美国艺术及科学学院、政治学方法论学会及美国政治及社会科学学院的院士或成员。其研究主要集中在社会科学方法论领域。罗伯特·基欧汉，普林斯顿大学伍德罗·威尔逊学院教授，曾出任美国国际关系学会及美国政治科学学会的会长。其研究集中在国际关系领域。悉尼·维巴，哈佛大学政府学院荣休教授，在哈佛执教35年并曾出任政府系系主任、政府学院副院长等行政职位，也曾担任为哈佛大学出版社董事会主席及美国政治科学学会会长。其研究集中在美国及比较政府研究领域。

出版者:Princeton University Press

作者:Gary King

页数:300

出版时间:1994-5-2

价格:USD 37.50

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780691034713

图书标签:方法论Methodology政治学社会学研究方法Political-Science研究设计社会科学

While heated arguments between practitioners of qualitative and quantitative research have begun to test the very integrity of the social sciences, Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba have produced a farsighted and timely book that promises to sharpen and strengthen a wide range of research performed in this field. These leading scholars, each representing diverse academic traditions, have developed a unified approach to valid descriptive and causal inference in qualitative research, where numerical measurement is either impossible or undesirable. Their book demonstrates that the same logic of inference underlies both good quantitative and good qualitative research designs, and their approach applies equally to each. Providing precepts intended to stimulate and discipline thought, the authors explore issues related to framing research questions, measuring the accuracy of data and uncertainty of empirical inferences, discovering causal effects, and generally improving qualitative research. Among the specific topics they address are interpretation and inference, comparative case studies, constructing causal theories, dependent and explanatory variables, the limits of random selection, selection bias, and errors in measurement. Mathematical notation is occasionally used to clarify concepts, but no prior knowledge of mathematics or statistics is assumed. The unified logic of inference that this book explicates will be enormously useful to qualitative researchers of all traditions and substantive fields.

读后感

Every researcher and student in the field of political science or discipline of social science should know this famous text book as well as its funny other name "KKV". It is no less than a miracle in the methodological works which have contributed a lot t...  

Every researcher and student in the field of political science or discipline of social science should know this famous text book as well as its funny other name "KKV". It is no less than a miracle in the methodological works which have contributed a lot t...  

中译本到手后翻阅了一下，读起来颇为生涩，与读原著时差别较大。把原著找出来校对了几页，发现问题挺多。 仅以第一章第一节为例(1.1.1, p1-p5) p1 这两种研究方式的差异是显而易见的 原文：The two traditions appear quite different... 这个不能说完全译错，但是没有把appe...  

用户评价

写得很好，但没有传说中的那么好，尤其是从理论上解释“为什么定性研究可以被用于实证”还是不够有力。这是最核心的基础，但简单两页纸就没了。

值得读，因果推断的根本难题尤其需要了解。但无论从对定性研究的了解、对因果推断的看法、建议都值得商榷。作者苦口婆心，无非是要把定性研究变成定量研究2.0

政治系新生是不是人人都得读过KKV呢？几位读过2遍的同学也一致吐槽太boring了；不过我在读2遍的时候，才发觉很多小细节小argument都设计的非常聪明

写得很好，但没有传说中的那么好，尤其是从理论上解释“为什么定性研究可以被用于实证”还是不够有力。这是最核心的基础，但简单两页纸就没了。

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