Talk:Causation (sociology)

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Sheila Prestupa in topic suggestion

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Good Afternoon,
I have been assigned to review this article and will be doing so today. My apologies for the delay, as I had a flu/cold over the last week.
Sheila Sheila Prestupa (talk) 21:16, 26 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

suggestion edit

this page needs a lot of work. it needs way more research done than what is already done. Closchen (talk) 15:57, 11 July 2011 (UTC)Casey LoschenReply


I would say you should have a few refrences and you should even talk about what it is and how it affects society as a whole and what it actually is. Kitkat1154 (talk) 02:11, 19 September 2011 (UTC)Reply


Here is a few sources that I am planning to use when working on the article, open to feedback on them

  Isajiw, Wsevolod. 1968. Causation and Functionalism in Sociology. London, England: Routledge and Kegan Paul Limited
  Kincaid, Harold. 2009. “Causality in the Social Sciences.” Pp. 726-743 in The Oxford Handbook of Causation, edited by H. Beebee, C. Hitchcock, and P. Menzies. New York: Oxford University Press.
  Sosa, E., & Tooley, M. 1993. Causation.  New York: Oxford University Press
  Theodornson, George, A. 1967. “The Uses of Causation in Sociology.” Pp. 131-152 in Sociological Theory: Inquiries and Paradigms, edited by L. Gross. New York: Haper and Row Publishers.

Dpratchler (talk) 23:40, 24 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Good Afternoon Devin,
I have been assigned to review this article and will be doing so today. My apologies for the delay, as I had a flu/cold over the last week.
Sheila Sheila Prestupa (talk) 21:16, 26 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

I am planning on adding a section following the lead paragraph expanding upon general causality and Hume as it seems to be a predominant theme in the literature, would also like to include a bit about causality and positivity (and potentially how this effects social research). Please let me know if you have any thoughts on my edits, future sections or revisions, and potential sources. Thanks and looking forward to hearing from any of you! Dpratchler (talk) 06:28, 2 February 2022 (UTC)Reply