This volume provides a new set of tools for creating and analysing theories. Computer-Assisted Theory Building re-orients the way many social scientists build and work with theories -- and it will prove of value to all practising social science theorists. Because verbal formulations are insufficiently specific and mathematical formulations often too restrictive, the author proposes a new formal language as a middle way, advocating computer simulation models to allow the formulation of more dynamic theories.
- ISBN10 0803929617
- ISBN13 9780803929616
- Publish Date 18 May 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 February 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 354
- Language English