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Historical Events Research
Research in which social events are studied at one past time period.
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Historical Process Research
Research in which historical processes are studied over a long period of time.
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Cross-sectional Comparative Research
Research comparing data from one time period between two or more nations.
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Comparative Historical Research
Research comparing data from more than one time period in more than one nation.
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Case-oriented Research
Research that focuses attention on the nation or other unit as a whole.
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Narrative Explanation
An idiographic causal explanation that involves developing a narrative of events and processes that indicate a chain of causes and effects.
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Event-structure Analysis
A systematic method of developing a causal diagram showing the structure of action underlying some chronology of events; the end result is an idiographic causal explanation.
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Oral History
Data collected through intensive interviews with participants in past events.
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Variable-oriented Research
Research that focuses attention on vairables representing particular aspects of the cases studied and then examines the relations among these variables across sets of cases.
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Method Agreement
A method proposed by John Stuart Mill for establishing a causal relation, in which the values of cases that agree on an outcome variable also agree on the value of the variable hypothesized to have a causal effect, while they differ in terms of other variables.
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Method of Difference
A method proposed by John Stuart Mill for establishing a causal relation, in which the values of cases that differ on an outcome variable also differ on the value of the variable hypothesized to have a causal effect, while they agree in terms of other variables.
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Demography
The statistical and mathematical study of the size, composition, and spatial distribution of human populations and how these features change over time.
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