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After Positivism : New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Nicholas Hoover.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Positivism.
- Sociology--History.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This book presents a wide array of warrants and methodologies for comparison to improve explanations of historical change in social-scientific research.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Comparison After Positivism, by Damon Mayrl and Nicholas Hoover Wilson
- Part I. Why Compare?
- 1. The Qualitative-Quantitative Divide in Comparative Historical Analysis, by Stefan Bargheer
- 2. Comparison in Action: Immersion and Recursion as Heuristics in Historical Sociology, by Damon Mayrl
- 3. The Meaningfulness of Comparison: A Macro-Phenomenological Exploration, by Xiaohong Xu
- 4. From Causality to Constitution: Why Good Historical Comparisons Are the Same as Good Ethnographic Case Studies, Deep Down, by Josh Pacewicz
- Part II. What to Compare
- 5. Process Theories and Comparative Sociology: Some Problems and a Solution, by Natalie B. Aviles
- 6. Designing Narratives and Recovering Legal Narrativity: An Exploratory Essay, by Laura R. Ford
- 7. Comparison, Context, and the Power of Modern Corruption, by Nicholas Hoover Wilson
- Part III. How to Compare
- 8. Comparative Sociology, Critical Realism, and Reflexivity, by George Steinmetz
- 9. Historicizing Comparisons in Historical Sociology, by Jonah Stuart Brundage
- 10. How Not to Lie with Comparative Historical Sociology: A Realist Balance Sheet, by Simeon J. Newman
- 11. Historical Causation and Temporally Sensitive Comparisons, by Yang Zhang
- 12. The Dialectical Comparative Methodology, by Rebecca Jean Emigh, Dylan Riley, and Patricia Ahmed
- Afterword, by Philip Gorski
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-231-55732-9
- OCLC:
- 1428902847
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