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First- and Second-Order Methodological Developments from the Coleman Report

Samuel R. Lucas
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2016, 2 (5) 117-140; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.5.06
Samuel R. Lucas
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vol. 2 no. 5 117-140
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.5.06

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2377-8253
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  • Published online September 1, 2016.

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Copyright © 2016 by Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Reproduction by the United States Government in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose. I thank Stephen Morgan, Karl Alexander, Adam Gamoran, Gary Orfield, Jennifer Jennings, Douglas L. Lauen, William A. Darity Jr., and two anonymous reviewers for comments on an earlier draft, as well as Jan Jacobs, Susan Rachel Schacht (posthumously), H. Sorayya Carr, and participants in the Methods and Epistemology of the Social Sciences (MESS) workshop at Berkeley for continuing helpful conversations on methods. All errors and omissions are the fault of the author. Direct correspondence to: Samuel R. Lucas at lucas@berkeley.edu, Sociology Department, University of California–Berkeley, 410 Barrows Hall, #1980, Berkeley, CA 94720-1980. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Samuel R. Lucasa
  1. aProfessor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley
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    Samuel R. Lucas, (lucas{at}berkeley.edu)
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    • IMPORTANT DESIGN ELEMENTS OF THE COLEMAN REPORT
    • KEY CRITICISMS OF THE COLEMAN REPORT
    • EXEMPLARY FIRST-ORDER RESPONSES
    • FIRST-ORDER METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS CHALLENGED
    • SECOND-ORDER METHODOLOGICAL RESPONSES
    • WHAT IS TO BE DONE? HARVESTING THE INSIGHTS OF SECOND-ORDER DEVELOPMENTS
    • CONCLUDING REMARKS
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