Theorizing in social science : the context of discovery / edited by Richard Swedberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swedberg, Richard, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford Social Sciences, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

All social scientists learn the celebrated theories and frameworks of their predecessors, using them to inform their own research and observations. But before there can be theory, there must be theorizing. Theorizing in Social Science introduces the reader to the next generation of theory construction and suggests useful ways for creating social theory.What makes certain types of theories creative, and how does one go about theorizing in a creative way? The contributors to this landmark collection-top social scientists in the fields of sociology, economics, and management-d

Contents:

Contents; Preface / Richard Swedberg; Contributors; 1. From Theory to Theorizing / Richard Swedberg; 2. Intuitionist Theorizing / Karin Knorr Cetina; 3. Analogy, Cases, and Comparative Social Organization / Diane Vaughan; 4. The Unsettlement of Communities of Inquiry / Isaac Ariail Reed and Mayer N. Zald; 5. Three Frank Questions to Discipline Your Theorizing / Daniel B. Klein; 6. Mundane Theorizing, Bricolage, and Bildung / Stephen Turner; 7. The Counterfactual Imagination / Roland Paulsen; 8. The Work of Theorizing / Karl E. Weick; 9. Susan Sontag and Heteroscedasticity / James G. March

Afterword / Neil GrossNotes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804791199

0804791198

OCLC:

875096477