A measure for measures : a manifesto for empirical sociology

書誌事項

A measure for measures : a manifesto for empirical sociology

Ray Pawson

(International library of sociology)

Routledge, 1989

  • : pbk

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注記

Bibliography: p. 327-334

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780415026598

内容説明

First Published in 2004. This challenging and pioneering work aims to provide a measure (a set of standards) for measures (empirical data) in sociological research. It argues that the critique of positivism has resulted in a methodological impasse. Criticism has pulled the rug from under positivist method but left nothing in its place. In a devastating and systematic critique the author rejects phenomenological and relativist objections to sociological measurement. A wholly new model for the empirical substantiation of sociological theory is developed based on an examination of scientific measurement techniques and a reading of realist philosophical principles. Unlike many books heralding a new direction in sociology, A MEASURE FOR MEASURES goes beyond meta-theory, providing detailed examples to show how the 'new realism' can provide a viable empirical method.

目次

Acknowledgements, 1. Substantiating sociology, PART ONE: DESPERATE MEASURES, 2. Against variable analysis: thirty years on, 3. Against scaling: meaning and measurement, PART TWO: A MEASURE OF REALISM, 4. Theory and observation: squaring the circularity problem, 5. On being 'empirical' without being 'empiricist', PART THREE: PRACTICAL MEASURES, 6. From variables to mechanisms (and back again), 7. Closure: actualism versus realism, 8. Explanatory networks: the conceptual domain of class, 9. Choosing class concepts: from indicator selection to theory adjudication, 10. Constructing class data: imposition and control in the interview, 11. The new rules of sociological measurement, Bibliography, Index
巻冊次

ISBN 9780415028707

内容説明

In this major textbook Ray Pawson gives the student a comprehensive introduction to the methods debate in empirical sociology, providing a challenging manifesto for the development of methods in the future. This book should be of interest to students of social theory, applied sociology, sociology of knowledge.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA07144578
  • ISBN
    • 0415028701
    • 0415026598
  • LCCN
    88019911
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    London ; New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    ix, 337 p.
  • 大きさ
    22 cm
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