A Measure for Measures: A Manifesto for Empirical Sociology

ISBN-13: 9780415026598 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 348 str.

Ray Pawson; R. Pawson

Opis

This book should be of interest to students of social theory, applied soci ology, sociology of knowledge.

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.