A Measure for Measures: A Manifesto for Empirical Sociology

ISBN-13: 9781138161825 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 352 str.

R. Pawson

Opis

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Ray Pawson is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds.