By Uta E. Gerhardt, Michael Edwin John Wadsworth
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The stress and the stigma explanations of crime and illness have developed over the last 30 years in relative isolation from each other, both within the fields of criminology and medical sociology in Britain as well as in Germany. By bringing social scientists together who are aware that international cooperation as well as exchange of ideas might benefit their field of study, this volume might be a step in the direction of facing and solving our dilemmas of explanation. The articles in this volume are attempts to address the dilemmas from different angles.
It is well known that statistical methods of data analysis become increasingly difficult to use as the number of units decreases and the number of relevant properties increases. Quantitative methods are geared to the study of large numbers of units and to the testing of hypotheses linking few variables, neither of which is typical of research at the aggregate level. e, relationships of causal connection or covariance between two or at best three variables. The reason for this rests in the complex nature of aggregate social phenomena, and in particular of social systems.
P. 82, who points out that there is an obvious discrepancy between the prevalence of analytical models involving mainly two variables and the fact that in non-experimental social research we normally deal with a whole set of interacting variables. 6 This comes out very clearly in J. Lakatos, The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes, Cambridge University Press 1978 ; but also see Gerard Radnitzky, From Justifying a Theory to Comparing Theories and Selecting Questions, Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 34/1980, pp.