Stanley Lieberson is Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, he was a past president of the American Sociological Association. He is the author of MAKING IT COUNT: The Improvement of Social Research and Theory and PIECE OF THE PIE: Black and White Immigrants Since 1880.

• PrefacePART ONE: CURRENT PRACTICESChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: SelectivityChapter 3: Comparisons, CounterfactualConditionals, and ContaminationChapter 4: Asymmetrical Forms of CausationChapter 5: Variation, Level of Analysis, andthe Research QuestionChapter 6: Control VariablesChapter 7: More about Current Practices  PAHT TWO: TOWARD A SOLUTIONChapter 8: And Now What?Chapter 9: Rethinking CausalityChapter 10: From Controls to OutcomesChapter 11: Further SuggestionsNotesReferencesIndex

Stanley Lieberson is Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, he was a past president of the American Sociological Association. He is the author of MAKING IT COUNT: The Improvement of Social Research and Theory and PIECE OF THE PIE: Black and White Immigrants Since 1880.

• PrefacePART ONE: CURRENT PRACTICESChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: SelectivityChapter 3: Comparisons, CounterfactualConditionals, and ContaminationChapter 4: Asymmetrical Forms of CausationChapter 5: Variation, Level of Analysis, andthe Research QuestionChapter 6: Control VariablesChapter 7: More about Current Practices  PAHT TWO: TOWARD A SOLUTIONChapter 8: And Now What?Chapter 9: Rethinking CausalityChapter 10: From Controls to OutcomesChapter 11: Further SuggestionsNotesReferencesIndex