Enter the dual crisis of quantitative sociology
October 31, 2017 14:42 Source: China Social Sciences Magazine Author: Chen Yunsong He Guangzheng Wu Purcel

  bet365 best casino games Quantitative sociology research is no longer satisfied with data description and liberalized association analysis,Instead, start to truly assume explanation、Disciplinary mission to predict the essence of social essence。For the past ten years,my country's quantitative sociology development quickly,But also encountered a dual crisis -causal logic crisis based on endogenous problems and theoretical vision of time and space -based problems。Dual crisis interweave together forms four "more" and four "difficulties" of current quantitative research: mostly based on section data,It is difficult to inference causality; more at the individual level,It is difficult to conduct macro tests; ignore the mechanism of dyeing,It is difficult to perform space analysis; mostly limited to contemporary surveys,It is difficult to conduct big historical research。There are five ways to get out of the dual crisis,Time differences、Cultivate experimental thinking、Follow the mechanism of dyeing、Build macro measurement and re -build theoretical thinking,New paradigm of quantitative sociology research can achieve new breakthroughs in four aspects,That is the compounding of research arguments、Test method Copy、Refinement of presentation methods、Research target science。

 Keywords:Quantitative study quantitative sociological quantitative analysis Cause and effect analysis of time and space analysis

Author Chen Yunsong,Associate Professor of Nanjing University Social College (Nanjing 210023); He Guangyi,Assistant researcher at Nanjing University Social College (Nanjing 210023); Wu Pales,Graduate School of Economics, Department of Economics, the University of Science and Technology of China。

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