Outlines a set of techniques that enable a researcher to discuss the 'hidden structure' of large data bases. These techniques use proximities, measures which indicate how similar or different objects are, to find a configuration of points which reflects the structure in the data.

《社会网络分析：方法与应用》涉及社会网络分析（SNA）在多领域的应用实例和基本方法工具，让社会科学研习者能在阅读本书后立刻开始他们自己的社会网络研究。这本富有创新性的著作摒弃了对数学方法的强调，而是从理念上讨论了社会网络分析方法的精要之处，以及如何将其运用于研究设计、数据收集和分析中。四个章节介绍了社会网络分析方法在政治学、工作与组织、心理与身体健康、犯罪与恐怖主义研究中的应用实例。

What is a model? How do you construct one? What are some common models in the social sciences? How can models be applied in new situations? What makes a model good? Focusing on answers to these and related questions, this multidisciplinary introduction to model building in the social sciences formulates interesting problems that involve students in creative model building and the process of invention. The book describes models of individual choice, exchange, adaptation, and diffusion. Throughout, student participation in analytical thinking is encouraged. Originally published in 1975 by HarperCollins Publishers.

社会网络分析在社会和行为科学巾应用甚广，如经济学、市场营销以及工业工程。社会网络的视角主要关注于社会实体之间的关系。具体的例子有团队成员之间的交流，公司间的经济事务，以及国家间的贸易或条约。标准社会和行为研究主要关心社会单元的属性，而将焦点放在对关系的研究上，是对标准社会和行为研究的一种重要补充。 《社会网络分析--方法与应用》(作者斯坦利·沃瑟曼、凯瑟琳·福斯特)综述并讨论了分析社会网络的方法，通过打量例子，重点关注这些方法的具体应用。本书主要分为六个部分。第一部分的章节从社会网络的视角进行概述，描述了不同类型的社会网络数据。第二部分讨论了社会网络的形式表示，包括符号、图论以及矩阵操作。第三部分涵盖了社会网络的结构和位置的性质，包括中心性、声望、优势、结构平衡、可聚类性、凝聚子群以及从属网络。第四部分考查了社会网络关于角色和地位的方法，包括对结构等价、块模型以及关系代数的讨论。第五部分探讨了二元关系和三元关系的特性。第六部分讨论了社会网络的统计方法。 《社会网络分析--方法与应用》是一本参考书，适用于那些想对网络分析方法有一个全面了解的读者，也适用于收集了网络数据，并想找到恰当方法对数据进行分析的研究者。它也是一本教科科书，较全面地涵盖了社会网络分析领域的方法论和应用。

我们已经见证了社交媒体、智能手机以及其他科技奇迹的诞生与进化，这些科技工具让我们能够以前所未见的规模和深度采集并处理有关人类行为的数据，从而为研究人类社会提供了一个全新的路径。这本书是一部里程碑式的作品，它将彻底改变下一代社会科学家和数据科学家探索世界的方式。
 大数据的10个共同特征是什么？
 如何通过数据预测美国总统大选的结果？
 如何在短时间内对100万个星系进行分类？
 大规模数据采集面临着怎样的道德伦理困境？
 科技公司是否在监视我们的行为，数字时代是不是将我们带进了“全景监狱”呢？
在计算社会学这一新兴领域，作者阐述了数字革命如何扭转了社会科学家和数据科学家观察行为、提出问题、开展实验和进行大规模协作的方式，详细描述了大批真实的案例，并且划定了面临伦理挑战时需要遵循的4项原则。
这本书用全新的数据模式解锁了社会学。对社会科学家来说，它是一本跨界指南之书；对数据科学家来说，它是一本素养提升之作。

"In the diversity of methods and objects of analysis it offers, Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method offers a fresh perspective on this Italian historian who has become such an essential point of reference in many domains of cultural study today." -- Dana Polan, Camera Obscura.

A bomb, an anarchist's 'accidental death', the murder of a police commissar, and the confession of a former member of Lotta Continua led to seven dubious court cases and a tale of political opportunism and dishonesty. Standing in the tradition of Emile Zola's famous J'accuse polemic against the Dreyfus trial at the end of the nineteenth century, the historian Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of the state's case in this late-twentieth-century political show-trial and reflects more generally on the similarities and differences between the roles of the Historian and the judge.

定性和定量研究者在方法论导向和研究实践方面都采取了不同的方式，而且这两类研究者之间存在着误解和勉强的交流。本书将社会科学中的定量和定性研究作为独立的传承加以分析，在学术上促进理解这些传承在哪些方面存在差异以及差异背后的原理何在。 和KKV《社会科学中的研究设计：定性研究中的科学推断》一书的著名论断“定量与定性研究传统仅在风格上有差异，并且这些差异在方法论和实质意义上都不重要”不同，本书强调定量和定性研究的差异，某种程度上，这本书可谓KKV一书的姊妹篇。

Exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are increasingly applied to observed network data and are central to understanding social structure and network processes. The chapters in this edited volume provide a self-contained, exhaustive account of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of ERGMs, including models for univariate, multivariate, bipartite, longitudinal and social-influence type ERGMs. Each method is applied in individual case studies illustrating how social science theories may be examined empirically using ERGMs. The authors supply the reader with sufficient detail to specify ERGMs, fit them to data with any of the available software packages and interpret the results.

若将研究方法比作学术武功的“剑”，那么本书就是力求指点学子“用剑方遒”，而不浪费笔墨在“铸剑”的原理上。
认识Kenneth罗胜强教授的人都知道，他不但在管理研究领域硕果累累，而且对研究方法有自己独到的见解，更难得的是，他对科学研究与教学怀有神圣的、强烈的使命感，一直以来都倾其心血帮助刚开始接触管理研究的学生和学者学习如何用国际标准进行高质量的研究。除了所在院校正常的课堂教学和研究生指导工作，在过去的十年间，罗胜强教授几乎每年都利用自己的假期为内地高校的师生讲授研究方法。同时，他在中人网上开设了一个名为“服事人的”博客圈子，作为分享自己知识经验的平台，不厌其烦地回答学子们的各种问题。
《管理学问卷调查研究方法》作为罗胜强教授多年科研经验和教学经验的呈现，充分体现了循循善诱、深入细致的特点，而且对于问卷调查研究方法的细节和难点的把握，非常符合学子的实际需要。书中对于统计分析知识，进行选择性地呈现，不同程度和需求的读者可以各取所需。
《管理学问卷调查研究方法》是一本以中文写就的，写给有志做好管理研究的中国学者的书。书中假设读者没有太多的统计学或者是研究的基本知识。书中由浅入深。从什么是研究开始，一步步地带出管理研究的基础知识。从如何开始做研究，到什么是研究的理论，怎样读文献，然后到做基本研究的必要统计知识。从最简单的相关分析，到中介和调节作用，然后是结构方程建模、研究的层阶问题、多层阶的线性模型，到最近比较流行的中介调节和调节中介作用。作者希望通过这样方式的介绍，让读者对如何做管理研究有一个全面的理解。

In this innovative approach to the practice of social science, Charles Ragin explores the use of fuzzy sets to bridge the divide between quantitative and qualitative methods. Paradoxically, the fuzzy set is a powerful tool because it replaces an unwieldy, "fuzzy" instrument (the variable, which establishes only the positions of cases relative to each other) with a precise one (degree of membership in a well-defined set). Ragin argues that fuzzy sets allow a far richer dialogue between ideas and evidence in social research than previously possible. They let quantitative researchers abandon "homogenizing assumptions" about cases and causes, they extend diversity-oriented research strategies, and they provide a powerful connection between theory and data analysis. Most important, fuzzy sets can be carefully tailored to fit evolving theoretical concepts, sharpening quantitative tools with in-depth knowledge gained through qualitative, case-oriented inquiry. This book should revolutionize research methods not only in sociology, political science and anthropology but in any field of inquiry dealing with complex patterns of causation.

The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research presents a comprehensive overview of the field of qualitative research. It is intended for students of all levels, faculty, and researchers across the social sciences. The contributors represent some of the most influential and innovative researchers in the field as well as emerging scholars. This handbook provides a broad introduction to the field of qualitative research to those with little to no background in the subject, while simultaneously providing substantive contributions to the field that will be of interest to even the most experienced researchers. It serves as a user-friendly teaching tool suitable for a range of undergraduate or graduate courses, as well as individuals working on their thesis or other research projects. With a focus on methodological instruction, this volume offers both a retrospective and prospective view of the field. The first two sections explore the history of the field, ethics and philosophical/theoretical approaches. The next three sections focus on the major methods of qualitative practice as well as newer approaches (such as arts-based research and internet research); area studies often excluded (such as museum studies and disaster studies); and mixed methods and participatory methods (such as community-based research). The next section covers key issues including data analysis, interpretation, writing and assessment. The final section offers a commentary about politics and research and the move towards public scholarship.

T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism—the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. He responds to three familiar objections: that such truths would have troubling metaphysical implications; that we would have no way of knowing what they are; and that the role of reasons in motivating and explaining action could not be explained if accepting a conclusion about reasons for action were a kind of belief. Scanlon answers the first of these objections within a general account of ontological commitment, applying to mathematics as well as normative judgments. He argues that the method of reflective equilibrium, properly understood, provides an adequate account of how we come to know both normative truths and mathematical truths, and that the idea of a rational agent explains the link between an agent's normative beliefs and his or her actions. Whether every statement about reasons for action has a determinate truth value is a question to be answered by an overall account of reasons for action, in normative terms. Since it seems unlikely that there is such an account, the defense of normative cognitivism offered here is qualified: statements about reasons for action can have determinate truth values, but it is not clear that all of them do. Along the way, Scanlon offers an interpretation of the distinction between normative and non-normative claims, a new account of the supervenience of the normative on the non-normative, an interpretation of the idea of the relative strength of reasons, and a defense of the method of reflective equilibrium.

《社会科学因果推断的理论基础》系统介绍了反事实的因果推论框架以及如何采用倾向值方法帮助社会科学经验研究者进行因果推论。除了基本的统计学原理之外，《社会科学因果推断的理论基础》回顾了倾向值方法的历史、发展及其对调查研究的意义，以及如何利用倾向值方法处理因果关系中的多类别性、中介性与异质性。除此之外，《社会科学因果推断的理论基础》还通过专门章节分析了比较个案研究中的综合控制个案方法以及因果推论过程中如何确定分析样本的样本量以及统计检定力。

是什么使心理学成为一门科学？什么是心理学研究背后的基本逻辑？作为本学科领域中最有难度的课程之一，心理学研究方法与统计推断常常给人带来深切的无力感。枯燥而呆板是学生们对它的普遍反映，那么你手中捧着的会不会又是这样一本“代表作”呢？
我想说的是，这本书或许会打破你对心理统计和研究方法的刻板印象。在这本开创性的著作中，卓顿·迪恩斯（Zoltán Dienes）教授将为读者剖析科学哲学与统计学中对心理学研究实践有着直接且重要影响的关键问题。本书从大思想家就科学哲学相关概念的论辩开始，带领读者走上引人入胜的思想之旅——从波普尔、库恩和拉卡托斯，到奈曼、皮尔逊，再到贝叶斯，直至费希尔和罗伊尔。作者请我们跟他一起走到幕后，探讨渗透于心理学研究之中、但却至今未有机会被大众充分了解的基本思维方式。

UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH, Ninth Edition, takes an example-based approach to the fundamentals of research methodology. Organized by topic--such as research in human factors, learning, thinking, and problem solving--the text helps you connect the concepts of sound methodology with their practical applications. Because the authors use dozens of carefully selected real-world examples, you can see for yourself the issues and problems that can occur in conducting research. More importantly, you can develop a sense of how to anticipate and adjust for problems in your own research.

Fabian's study is a classic in the field that changed the way anthropologists relate to their subjects and is of immense value not only to anthropologists but to all those concerned with the study of man. A new foreward by Matti Bunzl brings the influence of Fabian's study up to the present. Time and the Other is a critique of the notions that anthropologists are "here and now," their objects of study are "there and then," and that the "other" exists in a time not contemporary with our own.