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Generally speaking : an invitation to concept-driven sociology / Eviatar Zerubavel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zerubavel, Eviatar, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology--Methodology.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (120 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- 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 theorising 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, generalising, 'exampling', and analogising) by which concept-driven researchers can distill generic social patterns from the culturally, historically, and domain-specific contexts in which they encounter them empirically.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-751931-8
- 0-19-751929-6
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