Generally Speaking (eBook)

An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology

Eviatar Zerubavel (Autor)

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2020
216 Seiten
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-751929-5 (ISBN)

Infos

In this invitation to "e;concept-driven"e; sociology, defying the conventional split between "e;theory"e; and "e;methodology"e; (as well as between "e;quantitative"e; and "e;qualitative"e; research), Eviatar Zerubavel introduces a yet unarticulated "e;Simmelian"e; method of theorizing specifically designed to reveal fundamental, often hidden social patterns. Insisting that it can actually be taught, he examines the theoretico-methodological process (revolving around the epistemic and analytical acts of focusing, generalizing, "e;exampling,"e; and analogizing) by which concept-driven researchers can distill generic social patterns from the culturally, historically, and domain-specific contexts in which they encounter them empirically. Disregarding conventionally noted substantive variability in order to uncover conventionally disregarded formal commonalities, Generally Speaking draws on cross-cultural, cross-historical, cross-domain, and cross-level analogies in an effort to reveal formal parallels across disparate contexts. Using numerous examples from culturally and historically diverse contexts and a wide range of social domains while also disregarding scale, Zerubavel thus introduces a pronouncedly transcontextual "e;generic"e; sociology.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.10.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• ISBN-10: 0-19-751929-6 / 0197519296
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-751929-5 / 9780197519295