This challenging and pioneering work aims to provide a measure (a set of standards) for measures (empirical data) in sociological research. This book goes beyond meta-theory, providing detailed examples to show how the 'new realism' can provide a viable empirical method.
This challenging and pioneering work aims to provide a measure (a set of standards) for measures (empirical data) in sociological research. This book goes beyond meta-theory, providing detailed examples to show how the 'new realism' can provide a viable empirical method.
Ray Pawson is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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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