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Hage, Jerald; Meeker, Barbara – 1983
If they are to develop more effective social intervention strategies, social scientists must pay attention to social causality in their research. This will lead to more credibility for the social sciences and more support for research funds. Social causality is defined as a social process that produces a change in some dependent variable. It…
Descriptors: Definitions, Predictor Variables, Research Design, Research Methodology
Download full textDaniels, William L. – 1976
The broader question regarding the issue of runaways as a social problem requires incidence figures to estimate the extent of this problem. This paper examines how differing definitions used to describe running away can produce varying estimates of incidence. Due to these variations, levels of incidence range from a low of .0011% to a high of…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Definitions, Incidence, Policy Formation
