Interrelation Between Type of Analysis and Type of Interpretation

ISBN-13: 9783906767819 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 248 str.

Van Meter, Karl M.

Opis

There is a vast variety of research methodologies and methods of analysis in sociology. Indeed, -research practice- a major constituent of -invisible colleges- or -schools of thought- is largely defined by choices of methodology, methods and types of interpretation. The aim of this book is to study this variety in its research applications in diverse sociological specialities and to analyze what types of methods are applied and in which context, why those particular methods, and not others, are used, and what those methods produce compared to results from other methods. Examining several cross-disciplinary and cross-national projects, the authors of this volume also demonstrate how these methods and results, while closely associated, are far from being scientifically determined. Using the metaphor of a -scientific language- to encompass research methodology and its practice in a social context, the authors explain that methodological communities function much like language communities with similar problems such as -translation- from one community to another but also benefit from the richness and diversity language brings."

Spis treści

Contents: Karl M. van Meter/Jean-Michel Berthelot: Introductory Synopsis - Marie-Ange Schiltz: Influence of the Choice of Statistical Analysis on Basic Operations in Survey Research: Coding and Selection of Variables - Alain Degenne: A Still Little Known Approach in Data Analysis: Boolean Techniques - Karl M. van Meter: Multimethod Analysis and Stability of Interpretation - Philippe Cibois: Interaction between a Research Environment and a Statistical Technique: The Tri-Deux Method - Michel Grossetti: Status and Formal Conception of Individual Social Trajectories in Sociological Analysis - Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau: Post-Modern Analysis and Political Interpretation: Is Deconstruction Inherently Right-Wing or Left-Wing? - Jean-Michel Berthelot: Language and Interlanguage: Reflections on Modalities of Interrelationships between Analysis and Interpretation in Sociology - Karl M. van Meter: Conclusions & Future Research: A Structure for World Sociology.

O autorze

The Editor: Karl M. van Meter holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Social Sciences and French Literature) from the US, an Honours Degree in Pure Mathematics from the UK and a Doctorate in Ordered Algebraic Structures from France (Université Paris VI). He has done research for UNESCO, the US, Germany and France and is published in those countries. He currently does research at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and directs the bilingual Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique (BMS).