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## Sociology and Over-Time Data Our theme is the analysis of social data subject to change through time, and the explanation or forecasting of change. The emphasis will be laid on aggregate change as it appears in many socio-demographic series; in a later section crime rates will be used as an illustration. Now, there is little need to belabour the point that the systematic and quantitative study of change is much neglected in sociology and the tools largely lacking. The discipline in which over-time data are used extensively and approached with methods of considerable power and refinement is obviously economics. Sociologists might then borrow from economists and econometricians the necessary concepts and procedures as they are doing in other areas. For reasons that will be briefly mentioned later this is not a solution without its questionable aspects. At least, there would seem to be some virtue in trying to develop an alternative strategy, as will be done in the following pages. It is designed both for the retrospective analysis of past change, and prospective uses, prediction or forecasting. The latter aim deserves some further and special comment.

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Author

Gosta Carlsson

Publisher

Springer Netherlands; Springer-Verlag; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 0033-5177)

Published

1975

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences