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Jun 2015
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Cees van der Eijk on “Contextualising Re...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Cees van der Eijk gives a talk for the Sociology seminar series. Cees van der Eijk discusses teaching quantitative methods, focussing on the need in successful methods teaching to locate methods topics in (a) the context of substantive research questions and examples, but also (b) the context of a ‘repertoire’ of methodological tools and approaches, and (c) ... Show More
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