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Constructing Social Research Objects

Constructionism in research practice
Buch | Softcover
244 Seiten
2022
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-64259-771-4 (ISBN)
CHF 52,35 inkl. MwSt
An essential new collection of reflections on the theory and methodology of social science research.
Constructing Social Research Objects is the third volume on theoretically driven methodology in the social sciences edited by Håkon Leiulfsrud and Peter Sohlberg. This essential new volume explains how to identify sociological research objects, and explores the art of living theory.


Theoretical concepts such as social structure, the Global South, social bonds, organizations and management are examined and developed by a broad range of the discipline's most influential authors. The methodological chapters—including critical notes on sociology and the uses of statistics, the value of thought experiments in sociology, how to research subjects in time and space, and the academic 'star war' between Pierre Bourdieu and Dorothy E. Smith—offer indispensable insights for researchers and students interested in theoretical construction work in the social sciences.


Contributors are: Göran Ahrne, Michela Betta, Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, Michael Burawoy, Raju Das, David Fasenfest, Raimund Hasse, Johs Hjellbrekke, Håkon Leiulfsrud, Emil A. Røyrvik, John Scott, Peter Sohlberg, Karin Widerberg and Richard Swedberg.

Håkon Leiulfsrud is Professor in Sociology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has published his work in the field of sociology with a special interest in social inequality, class and social stratification, labour market, and welfare state issues. He has been teaching sociological theory, courses in social inequality and welfare state, and research methods in Trondheim since the mid 1990s. Peter Sohlberg is Professor in Philosophy of Social Science and Sociology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has published his work in the fields of philosophy of science, sociology, and social psychology. He has been teaching social theory and philosophy of social science since the early 1990s in Uppsala, Stockholm and Trondheim. His most recent book is Functionalist Construction Work in Social Science. The Lost Heritage.

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors


1 Introduction

   Håkon Leiulfsrud and Peter Sohlberg


2 How Do You Establish the Research Object in Sociology?

   Richard Swedberg


3 Historical Epistemology, Sociology, and Statistics

   Johs Hjellbrekke


4 Constructing Social Structure

   John Scott


5 Constructing the Conceptual Tools for the Global South

   David Fasenfest and Raju J. Das


6 The Significance of Social Bonds

   Göran Ahrne


7 Organisations as a Sociological Research Object

  How Schools Reproduce Inequality

   Raimund Hasse


8 Broken Promises and Lost Qualities

  Constructing Management as a Research Object in Sociology and Anthropology

   Emil André Røyrvik


9 On Thought Experiments in Sociology and the Power of Thinking

   Michela Betta and Richard Swedberg


10 Constructing and Researching the Object in Time and Space

   Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen


11 Academic Star Wars

  Pierre Bourdieu and Dorothy E. Smith on Academic Work

   Karin Widerberg


12 Living Theory

  Reflections on Four Decades of Teaching Social Theory

   Michael Burawoy


13 Postscript

   Peter Sohlberg and Håkon Leiulfsrud


Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Chicago
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-64259-771-6 / 1642597716
ISBN-13 978-1-64259-771-4 / 9781642597714
Zustand Neuware
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