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Does sociology need statistics?

Medium Periodical Article
Medium - part of - (Periodical Copy) (Date) Nov2014 (Volume) 24 (Number) 2
Medium (Periodical) Sociology Review.
Classif 301 SOC
Subject Sociology
Page 2 - 5
Authors MacInnes, John
Contents

Critical sociologists often dismiss statistics as 'damned lies'. How can the complexity of social relations be reduced to anything crude as numbers? Can numerical measurements ever tell us anything socially useful?

Keywords
Quantitative methods     Sampling     Statistics    


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