This book constitutes a practical guide to the important skills of both theorizing and writing in social scientific scholarship, focusing on the importance of identifying relations between concepts that are useful for explaining social entities and of producing a text that convincingly advances the theory that has been constructed. Richly illustrated with practical examples, the book is divided into two sections, the first of which presents techniques for theorizing based upon the connection of ideas, concepts and empirical patterns in both free and systematic ways, with the second section…mehr
This book constitutes a practical guide to the important skills of both theorizing and writing in social scientific scholarship, focusing on the importance of identifying relations between concepts that are useful for explaining social entities and of producing a text that convincingly advances the theory that has been constructed. Richly illustrated with practical examples, the book is divided into two sections, the first of which presents techniques for theorizing based upon the connection of ideas, concepts and empirical patterns in both free and systematic ways, with the second section providing techniques for structuring and presenting arguments in essays, papers, articles or books.
Jan Ch. Karlsson is Professor of Organization, Faculty of Business, Languages, and Social Sciences, Ostfold University College, Norway. Ann Bergman is Professor of Working Life Science at Karlstad University, Sweden.
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List of figures List of tables Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Theorizing and writing social theory Social theory Theorizing Writing Writing in the research process Writing in the reporting process Outline of the book References PART I Tools for theorizing in social science Graphic representations Displays and property spaces as preliminary endpoints References Chapter 2 Basics of displays What is a display? Building blocks of displays Putting a display together Summary References Chapter 3 The use of displays in theorizing Theorizing by extending Theorizing by mapping interaction Stepwise theorizing Summary References Chapter 4 Basics of property spaces Constructing a property space Hidden property spaces Housekeeping Labelling the types: terms Developing existing terminology Summary References Chapter 5 Reduction of property spaces in theorizing Rescaling Indexing Logic reduction Empirical reduction Theoretical reduction Pragmatic reduction Summary References Chapter 6 Expansion of property spaces in theorizing Substruction More properties of existing dimensions More dimensions Combining property spaces Inserting process arrows Creating scales Summary References PART II Tools for writing social science References Chapter 7 The Model of Argumentation: chain of reasoning, chains of argument and arguments The rhetorical situation Purpose Persona Audience Tone The subject matter The model Summary References Chapter 8 Examples of using the Model of Argumentation The process of writing a social science text: an example The (preliminarily) finished structure of a text: an example The structure of Chapter 4, 'Basics of property spaces' Constructing a property space Housekeeping Moving the model down one level Summary References Chapter 9 Theorizing and writing Research process and reporting process Displays Property spaces Writing Summary References Appendix: from Bergman, Ann, Jan Ch. Karlsson and Jonas Axelsson (2010) 'Truth Claims and Explanatory Claims - an Ontological Typology of Futures Studies', Futures, 42(8): 857-65 Index
List of figures List of tables Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Theorizing and writing social theory Social theory Theorizing Writing Writing in the research process Writing in the reporting process Outline of the book References PART I Tools for theorizing in social science Graphic representations Displays and property spaces as preliminary endpoints References Chapter 2 Basics of displays What is a display? Building blocks of displays Putting a display together Summary References Chapter 3 The use of displays in theorizing Theorizing by extending Theorizing by mapping interaction Stepwise theorizing Summary References Chapter 4 Basics of property spaces Constructing a property space Hidden property spaces Housekeeping Labelling the types: terms Developing existing terminology Summary References Chapter 5 Reduction of property spaces in theorizing Rescaling Indexing Logic reduction Empirical reduction Theoretical reduction Pragmatic reduction Summary References Chapter 6 Expansion of property spaces in theorizing Substruction More properties of existing dimensions More dimensions Combining property spaces Inserting process arrows Creating scales Summary References PART II Tools for writing social science References Chapter 7 The Model of Argumentation: chain of reasoning, chains of argument and arguments The rhetorical situation Purpose Persona Audience Tone The subject matter The model Summary References Chapter 8 Examples of using the Model of Argumentation The process of writing a social science text: an example The (preliminarily) finished structure of a text: an example The structure of Chapter 4, 'Basics of property spaces' Constructing a property space Housekeeping Moving the model down one level Summary References Chapter 9 Theorizing and writing Research process and reporting process Displays Property spaces Writing Summary References Appendix: from Bergman, Ann, Jan Ch. Karlsson and Jonas Axelsson (2010) 'Truth Claims and Explanatory Claims - an Ontological Typology of Futures Studies', Futures, 42(8): 857-65 Index
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