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| Frontmatter |
| Dedication |
| Contents |
| Acknowledgements |
| Introduction |
| Sociology as a population science the central idea |
| Individual variability in human social life |
| The individualistic paradigm |
| Population regularities as basic explananda |
| Statistics concepts and the objects of sociological study |
| Statistics and methods of data collection |
| Statistics and methods of data analysis |
| The limits of statistics causal explanation |
| Causal explanation through social mechanisms |
| Conclusion |
| References |
| Index |