{"product_id":"causality-in-crisis-statistical-methods-search-for-causal-knowledge-in-social-sciences-9780268008246","title":"Causality in Crisis?: Statistical Methods \u0026 Search for Causal Knowledge in Social Sciences","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Vaughn McKim | Stephen Turner\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Probability \u0026amp; Statistics - Multivariate Analysis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the past fifty years statisticians and methodologists in the social sciences have developed and refined a family of closely related statistical methods for the study of social phenomena. While the value of such methods of analysis is universally acknowledged, their use has never been wholly uncontroversial. In 1993 prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines (social sciences, statistics, philosophy of science) gathered at the University of Notre Dame to debate whether causal modeling techniques old or new can really justify the drawing of causal conclusions on the basis of correlational statistical data. The resulting volume from that groundbreaking conference is \u003ci\u003eCausality in Crisis?\u003c\/i\u003e a comprehensive and sophisticated introduction to perhaps the most important set of issues confronting social scientific researchers in the 1990s and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the essays presented here contributors critically reassess the widely accepted view that statistical methods of analysis can and do yield causal understanding of social phenomena. Although a number of technical issues receive attention, the overall emphasis is on the larger historical, philosophical, and conceptual perspectives that underlie and inform current methodological controversies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe debates in \u003ci\u003eCausality in Crisis?\u003c\/i\u003e have far-ranging implications, for on their resolution hinges the question of what sort of knowledge of social life it is possible to achieve on the basis of non-experimental social scientific research. Any scholar who makes use of causal methods, as well as all who are affected by decisions reached on the basis of such methods, will have a stake in the challenging arguments put forth in this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614693900439,"sku":"9780268008246","price":3015.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780268008246.webp?v=1775095589","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/causality-in-crisis-statistical-methods-search-for-causal-knowledge-in-social-sciences-9780268008246","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}