A measure for measures : a manifesto for empirical sociology
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A measure for measures : a manifesto for empirical sociology
(International library of sociology)
Routledge, 1989
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Bibliography: p. 327-334
Includes index
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: 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
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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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