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By: Four Stone Hearth #74 « Natures/Cultures

Four Stone Hearth #74 « Natures/Cultures — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:20:20 +0000

[…] Savage Minds, the meta-daddy of us all is covering reference-management software, what it means to browse as opposed to surf, and of course How Professors Think. Now, why are we giving that information […]

By: Rex

Rex — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:58:50 +0000

Sorry for the bad link — the new ‘automatic proxy’ at my uni sometimes makes things harder, not easier…

By: John McCreery

John McCreery — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:01:10 +0000

Rex, Cosimo, thanks so much. Serendipitously I have been urging participants in OAC to read Abbott’s _Models and Methods: Heuristics for the Social Sciences_, which, IMHO, does a brilliant job of positioning ethnography vis-a-vis history, standard causal (statistical) analysis, small-n comparisons and formal modeling. Abbott is rapidly becoming my most “good to think” social scientist ever.

By: John McCreery

John McCreery — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:58:48 +0000

Rex, Cosimo, thanks so much. Serendipitously I have been urging participants in OAC to read Abbott’s Models and Methods: Heuristics for the Social Sciences, which, IMHO, does a brilliant job of positioning ethnography vis-a-vis history, standard causal (statistical) analysis, small-n comparisons and formal modeling. Abbott is rapidly becoming my most “good to think” social scientist ever.

By: Cosimo Lupo

Cosimo Lupo — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:50:46 +0000

ops! sorry for the double comment (and the misspelling).. I had some trouble with spam protection!

By the way, what’s the sum of 7 + 8 ? … 😉

By: Cosimo Lupo

Cosimo Lupo — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:43:52 +0000

The link that Rex has put leads to the University of Hawaii – Electronic Resources’ page which seems to be restricted to students and staff only. However, I managed to find Abbott’s paper via Google at the following address:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~aabbott/Papers/crl.pdf

(I guess it must be open access otherwise one wouldn’t be able to download it)

Thanks for the interesting blog post and for the reading suggestion!

By: Cosimo Lupo

Cosimo Lupo — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:42:52 +0000

The link that Rex has put leads to the University of Hawaii – Electronic Resources’ page which seems to be restricted to students and staff only However I manage to find Abbott’s paper via Google at the following address:

http://home.uchicago.edu/~aabbott/Papers/crl.pdf

(I guess it must be open access otherwise one wouldn’t be able to download it)

Thanks for the interesting blog post and for the reading suggestion!