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Sociolinguistics --- Canada --- Bilingualism --- English-French relations --- Bilingualism - Canada --- Canada - English-French relations
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This title reexamines and reconsiders the model of empirical research underlying most empirical work. The goal is neither a whitewash nor capital punishment, but rather it is to reform and mold empirical research into an activity that contributes as much as possible to a rigorous understanding of society. Without worrying about defining science or even determining the essence of the scientific enterprise, the goal is one that pools together logical thinking and empirically determined information. One of the fundamental issues to be addressed in this volume: Are there questions currently studied that are basically unanswerable even if the investigator had ideal nonexperimental data? If so, what are the alternative questions that can be dealt with successfully by empirical social research, and how should they be approached? In the chapters ahead, it will be important to keep in mind this doctrine of the undoable. Of course, one cannot simply mutter ";undoable"; when a difficult obstacle is encountered, turn off the computer, and look in the want ads for a new job-or at least a new task. Instead, it means considering if there is some inherent logical reason or sociological force that makes certain empirical questions unanswerable. There are four types of undoable questions to consider: those that are inherently impossible; those that are premature; those that are overly complicated; and those that empirical and theoretical knowledge have nullified.
Sociology --- Social sciences --- Research --- Methodology. --- 303 --- #SBIB:303H10 --- 303 Methoden bij sociaalwetenschappelijk onderzoek --- Methoden bij sociaalwetenschappelijk onderzoek --- Methoden en technieken: algemene handboeken en reeksen --- Methods in social research (general) --- boyles law. --- causality. --- causation. --- conducting research. --- data collection. --- empiricism. --- evaluating data. --- logic. --- nonexperimental data. --- nonfiction. --- political science. --- quasi experiment. --- research assumptions. --- research methods. --- research questions. --- research. --- sampling problems. --- science. --- scientific enterprise. --- scientific method. --- scientific theory. --- selectivity. --- social research. --- social science. --- sociological methodology. --- sociology. --- variables.
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Fads. --- Fashion. --- Names, Personal --- Social change.
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Minorities --- African Americans --- African Americans --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- United States --- United States --- Ethnic relations. --- Race relations.
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There is little question that the descendants of the new European immigrant groups from Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe have done very well in the United States, reaching levels of achievement far above blacks. Yet the new Europeans began to migrate to the United States in 1880, a time when blacks were no longer slaves. Why have the new immigrants fared better than the blacks? This volume focuses on the historical origins of the current differences between the groups. Professor Lieberson scoured early U. S. censuses and used a variety of offbeat information sources to develop data that would throw light on this question, as well as provide new information on occupations at the turn of the century, finding remarkable parallels between the black position in the urban South and the urban North. He examines and compares progress in education and in politics between the new Europeans and the blacks. What were the effects of segregation? Why did labor unions discriminate more severely against blacks than against the new immigrant groups? This book will generate a fresh interpretation of the origins of black-new European differences, one which explains why other nonwhite groups, such as the Chinese and Japanese, have done relatively well.
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