|
Generally Speaking: An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology
|
(Buch) |
Dieser Artikel gilt, aufgrund seiner Grösse, beim Versand als 2 Artikel!
Lieferstatus: |
Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt) |
Veröffentlichung: |
Januar 2021
|
Genre: |
Soziologie |
ISBN: |
9780197519288 |
EAN-Code:
|
9780197519288 |
Verlag: |
Oxford Academic |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
|
Dimensionen: |
H 137 mm / B 206 mm / D 10 mm |
Gewicht: |
0 gr |
Seiten: |
128 |
Bewertung: |
Titel bewerten / Meinung schreiben
|
Inhalt: |
In this invitation to "concept-driven" sociology, defying the conventional split between "theory" and "methodology" (as well as between "quantitative" and "qualitative" research), Eviatar Zerubavel introduces a yet unarticulated "Simmelian" method of theorizing specifically designed to reveal fundamental, often hidden social patterns. Insisting that it can actually be taught, he examines the theoretico-methodological process (revolving around the epistemic and analytical acts of focusing, generalizing, "exampling," and analogizing) by which concept-driven researchers can distill generic social patterns from the culturally, historically, and domain-specific contexts in which they encounter them empirically. Disregarding conventionally noted substantive variability in order to uncover conventionally disregarded formal commonalities, Generally Speaking draws on cross-cultural, cross-historical, cross-domain, and cross-level analogies in an effort to reveal formal parallels across disparate contexts. Using numerous examples from culturally and historically diverse contexts and a wide range of social domains while also disregarding scale, Zerubavel thus introduces a pronouncedly transcontextual "generic" sociology. |
|