Description
This book, How to Build Social Science Theories, is essential reading for students of social science research. It demonstrates how new theories originate and how they are elaborated, tracing theories from their rudimentary building blocks through multivariable theoretical statements, models, the role of creativity in theory building, and how theories are used and evaluated.
Features:
- Explores concepts and their theoretical and operational definitions.
- Discusses theoretical statements, including hypotheses, assumptions, and propositions.
- Covers theoretical and operational linkages, including bivariate and multivariate relationships.
- Includes chapters on the creative component of theory-building and theory evaluation.
- Intended to improve research by making it more theory-based and theory-oriented.
- Useful for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in communication theory and other social science methodology courses.
- Indispensable guide for professional researchers.
This is a used book in good condition.