Description
These four volumes provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the European tradition in qualitative research. The editors define `qualitative' to refer to a broad range of procedures and operations used by sociologists and anthropologists in their interpretation and explanation of social and ethnographic data. The collection includes contributions from the classic tradition to contemporary work. The subjects addressed include: documentary methods; textual analysis; non-textual analysis; interviews; questionnaires; field observations; case study methods; qualitative analysis of small social units; comparative analysis; historical analysis; concept formation; classifying and constructing typologies; content analysis; model-building and verstehen methods.
The four volumes are organized as follows:
Volume 1: Collecting Data
This volume explores the use of personal written documents, newspaper analysis, the analysis of official documents, fiction, scientific texts, non-textual data analysis, interviews, questionnaires, field observations and case studies.
Volume 2: Selecting A Type of Approach and Building Concepts
This volume focuses on the monographic method, description and explanation, the qualitative analysis of small units, methods of comparative analysis and methods of historical analysis, questions of the nature of value-free research, ideal type conceptualization, provisory definition, the construction of the sociological object, methods of description, classifying typologies, multidimensional classification and polythetic classification.
Volume 3: Building Theories
In addition to a section on content analysis this volume investigates methods of observation and comparison, rules dealing with `social facts', epistemology, mechanistic models, biological models, analogy and homology and the method of verstehen.
Volume 4: Explaining and Understanding and Finding Out the Right Theoretical Frame
Continuing with an investigation of the method of verstehen this volume focuses on phenomenological sociology, the rational choice model, cognitive and axiological rationality and how competing theories explain the same phenomenon.
Table of Contents
Provisional Contents
VOLUME ONE
PART ONE: COLLECTING DATA
SECTION ONE: USING AVAILABLE DATA
An Analysis of the Verbal Content of Suicide Notes - Louis A Gottschalk and Goldine C Gleser
Intellectualism, Intellectuals and the History of Religion - Max Weber
The Church and the Social Classes - Bernard Groethuysen
Benjamin Franklin - Kurt Samuelsson
How the Spirit of Revolt Was Promoted by Well-Intentioned Efforts to Improve the People's Lot - Alexis de Tocqueville
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Georg Luk[ac]acs
Problems in the Histography of Science - Alexandre Koyr[ac]e
Can There Be an Alternative Mathematics? - David Bloor
Joy, High Spirits, Love, Tender Feelings, Devotion - Charles Darwin
The Handle - Georg Simmel
Designs as Signs - Ernst Hans Gombrich
Recent History - Quentin Bell
Understanding Errors in Perspective - Dominique Raynaud
Friedrich, or, The Other Fatherland - A Besan[ce]con
Structural Analysis - Siegfried Kracauer
SECTION TWO: COLLECTING NEW DATA
The Interview Technique in Social Anthropology - S F Nadel
Sur l'utilisation de l'entretien non directif en sociologie - Guy Michelat
La Formulation des questions d'enqu[ci]ete - Jean-Paul Gr[ac]emy
Une r[ac]esponse m[ac]ediane et `sans avis'
How to Explain Common Feelings of Justice - Emmanuelle Betton-Gossart
What Method of Empirical Analysis Shall We Choose?
Affluence and the British Class Structure - John H Goldthorpe and David Lockwood
The Principles of Selection of Cultural Data - Florian Znaniecki
Life Stories in the Bakers' Trade - Daniel Bertaux and Isabelle Bertaux-Wiame
The Observers Observed - Jean Peneff
French Survey Researchers at Work
Research Concerning Prisons - Bruno Milly
Return to the Methodological Difficulties of Field Studies in this Area
VOLUME TWO
PART TWO: SELECTING A TYPE OF APPROACH
SECTION ONE: CASE STUDIES
On Family, Work and Social Change - Fr[ac]ed[ac]eric le Play
Neighbourhood Relations in the Making - Norbert Elias
When Describing is Explaining - Henri Bergeron
Qualitative Methods in the Study of French Drug Addiction Treatment Policy
The Gains of Irrationality - Jean-Pierre Lavaud
SECTION TWO: QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SMALL SOCIAL UNITS
The Political System - E E Evans-Pritchard
The Social System at the Shop Level - Michel Crozier
The Plant Subculture and the Formal Authority System
SECTION THREE: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
How Towards the Middle of the Eighteenth Century Men of Letters Took the Lead in Politics and the Consequences of this New Development - Alexis de Tocqueville
Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation - Karl Marx
Introduction to the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective - Alexander Gerschenkron
The Kemalist Revolution in Comparative Perspective - S N Eisenstadt
PART THREE: BUILDING CONCEPTS
SECTION ONE: DESCRIPTION AND CONCEPTUALISATION
Preface to the First Edition of Histories of the Latin and Germanic Nations from 1494-1514 - Leopold von Ranke
La Pri[gr]ere - Marcel Mauss
Danses et l[ac]egendes de la Chine ancienne - Marcel Granet
Conceptualization and Narration - W G Runciman
The Contours of High Modernity - Anthony Giddens
A Typology of Nationalisms - Ernst Gellner
SECTION TWO: CLASSIFYING AND BUILDING TYPOLOGIES
The Multidimensional Space of Classes - Karl Marx
How to Determine Social Causes and Social Types - [ac]Emile Durkheim
Three Types of Christian Thought - Ernst Troeltsch
General Statement of the Main Concepts - Ferdinand T[um]onnies
Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy - Max Weber
Political Systems of Highland Burma - Edward Leach
Polythetic Classification - Rodney Needham
Ideal Types and Historical Explanation - J W N Watkins
Some Functions of Qualitative Analysis in Social Research - A H Barton and P F Lazarsfeld
Four Whole Persons - Mary Douglas and Steven Ney
Formal and Empirical Pragmatics - J[um]urgen Habermas
VOLUME THREE
PART THREE: BUILDING CONCEPTS (CONTINUED)
SECTION THREE: CONTENT ANALYSIS
The Structure of Foreign News - Johan Galtung and Mari Holmboe Ruge
The Presentation of the Congo, Cuba and Cyprus Crises in Four Norwegian Newspapers
Social Class, Linguistic Codes and Grammatical Elements - Basil B Bernstein
PART FOUR: BUILDING THEORIES
SECTION ONE: STYLES OF THEORY
Caract[gr]eres fondamentaux de la m[ac]ethode positive dans l'[ac]etude rationnelle des ph[ac]enom[gr]enes sociaux - Auguste Comte
The Scientific Approach - Vilfredo Pareto
Introduction to On Sociology, Numbers, Narratives and the Integration of Research and Theory - John H Goldthorpe
The Debate about Quantitative and Qualitative Research - Alan Bryman
A Question of Method or Epistemology?
SECTION TWO: SOME GENERAL MODELS
Basic Mechanisms Generating Inequality of Educational Opportunity - Raymond Boudon
Relative Deprivation - Mohammed Cherkaoui
Elements and Mechanism of Production - Leon Walras
The General Form of Society - Vilfredo Pareto
The Social Organism - Herbert Spencer
The Aimlessness of Cultural Development - Konrad Lorenz
The Selectionist Paradigm and its Implications for Sociology - W G Runciman
Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts - Emile Durkheim
On the Concept of Function in Social Science - A R Radcliffe-Brown
Sur l'analogie et l'homologie - Gabriel Tarde
Morphology of the Folktale - Vladimir Propp
The Structural Study of Myth - Claude L[ac]evi-Strauss
Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives - Roland Barthes
Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism - Erwin Panofsky
PART FIVE: EXPLAINING AND UNDERSTANDING
SECTION ONE: WHAT IS `VERSTEHEN'?
The Development of Hermeneutics - Wilhelm Dilthey
The Psychological a priori and its Polar Antitheses - Georg Simmel
The Definition of Sociology and of Social Action - Max Weber
Methodological Foundations
The Operation Called Verstehen - Theodore Abel
Verstehen and the Unconscious - Alberto Izzo
A Historical Overview
VOLUME FOUR
PART FIVE: EXPLAINING AND UNDERSTANDING (CONTINUED)
SECTION ONE: WHAT IS `VERSTEHEN'? (CONTINUED)
Different Cultures, Different Rationalities? - Steven Lukes
Interpretation and Hypothesis in Social Studies - Mario Bunge
SECTION TWO: PHENOMENOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGY
Interpretative Sociology - Alfred Schutz
SECTION THREE: RATIONAL CHOICE MODEL
Rational Choice and Sociological Theory - Siegwart Lindenberg
New Pressures on Economics as a Social Science
Contending Conceptions of the Theory of Rational Action - Karl-Dieter Opp
Rational Action Theory for Sociology - John H Goldthorpe
Risky Choices and Rationality - Albertina Oliverio
The Case of HIV/AIDS Preventive Behaviours
SECTION FOUR: COGNITIVE AND AXIOLOGICAL RATIONALITY
Of the Sense of Justice, of Remorse and of the Consciousness of Merit - Adam Smith
Religious Rejections of the World and Their Directions - Max Weber
The Rationality Principle - Karl Popper
Rational Choice Theory or Methodological Individualism? - Raymond Boudon
PART SIX: FINDING OUT THE RIGHT THEORETICAL FRAME
SECTION ONE: MAKING QUANTITATIVE DATA MEANINGFUL THROUGH QUALITATIVE THEORIES
The Universal Welfare State as a Social Dilemma - Bo Rothstein
SECTION TWO: HOW COMPETING THEORIES EXPLAIN THE SAME PHENOMENON
Of the Expense of the Institutions for the Instruction of People of All Ages - Adam Smith
The Example of the Americans Does Not Prove That a Democratic People Can Have No Aptitude and No Taste for Science, Literature or Art - Alexis de Tocqueville
The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
Imitative Rites - Emile Durkheim
Conclusion to Primitive Mentality - Lucien L[ac]evy-Bruhl
Ressentiment and Moral Value Judgement - Max Scheler
The Social Psychology of the World Religions - Max Weber
African Traditional Thought and Western Science - Robin Horton
From Tradition to Science
Religion and the Decline of Magic - Keith Thomas
Rational Fools - Amartya K Sen
A Critique of the Behavioral Foundations of Economic Theory
Not Just for the Money - Bruno S Frey
An Economic Theory of Personal Motivation
Beyond Homo Oeconomicus and Homo Sociologicus - C Mantzavinos
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