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As straightforward as its title, How to Build Social Science Theories sidesteps the well-traveled road of theoretical examination by demonstrating how new theories originate and how they are elaborated. Essential reading for students of social science research, this book traces theories from their most rudimentary building blocks (terminology and definitions) through multivariable theoretical statements, models, the role of creativity in theory building, and how theories are used and evaluated.
Theoretical Statements Relating Four or More Variables
Theoretical Statements Relating Four or More Variables
In this chapter, we cover why the theory builder might want to use more than three variables in a hypothesis and how to construct theoretical statements relating four or more variables. We will learn how to extend the three-variable strategy to these more complex systems, how ...
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