Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Methodology

Weber and Durkheim: A methodological comparison is a systematic, comparative analysis of the methodologies of Max Weber and mile Durkheim. Jensen shows how Weber and Durkheim analyse Protestants and Catholics in practice in The Protestant Ethic and Suicide, respectively. The very different ways that Weber and Durkheim carry out their analyses are then used to describe, analyse and contrast their methodological principles and points of view, raising fundamental questions in sociological and social science analysis, such as:

• What constitutes the object of sociology?
• How are...

Multidimensional Item Response Theory is the first book to give thorough coverage to this emerging area of psychometrics. The book describes the commonly used multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) models and the important methods needed for their practical application. These methods include ways to determine the number of dimensions required to adequately model data, procedures for estimating model parameters, ways to define the space for a MIRT model, and procedures for transforming calibrations from different samples to put them in the same space. A full chapter is...

Synthesizing British, French and American traditions, this stimulating and accessible text presents a comprehensive and fascinating introduction to social and cultural anthropology. It offers an original approach through integrating knowledge produced from a variety of perspectives, placing cultural and social anthropology in a wider context including macro-sociological concepts and reference to biological evolution. Written in a clear and concise style, it conveys to the student the complexities of a discipline focusing on the structure, evolution and cultural identity of human societies...

What's Critical About Critical Realism?: Essays in Reconstructive Social Theory draws together 4 major articles that are situated at the intersection of philosophy and sociology. Preceded by a general presentation of Bhaskars work, critical realism is used to reconstruct the generative structuralism of Pierre Bourdieu, warn about the dangers of biocapitalism, theorize about social movements and explore the hermeneutics of internal conversations.

Together, the essays form a logical sequence that starts with a search for a solid conception of social structure through a realist critique of...

Forschungsorganisationen stehen fortwahrend vor zwei Herausforderungen. Erstens wird von ihnen erwartet, in Reaktion auf intellektuellen Wandel neue Forschungsgebiete zugig aufzugreifen und zu unterstutzen. Zweitens sollen sie im Zuge gesellschaftlicher Veranderungen zu Tragern des institutionellen Wandels der Forschung werden. Die Beitrage dieses Bandes diskutieren, inwiefern Forschungsorganisationen diese beiden Herausforderungen bewaltigen konnen. Unter dem Stichwort der institutionellen Erneuerungsfahigkeit" werden konzeptuelle Antworten und empirische Befunde der...