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    Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research

    By Gary King, Robert O. Keohane and Sidney Verba

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton University Press
    Release dateMay 2, 1994
    ISBN9781400821211
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    Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research
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    Gary King

    Gary King was a professor of psychology at Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma, for thirty-five years before his retirement in 2007. He has published articles in several journals and papers, as well as short stories and a non-fiction piece in the United States Golf Association's Golf Journal. His first book, "An Autumn Remembered: Bud Wilkinson's Legendary '56 Sooners," was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2006. He currently resides in Norman, Oklahoma, with his wife Patricia.

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