ISBN:
9780415026598
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (347 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Measure for Measure: Manifesto
DDC:
300.18
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book should be of interest to students of social theory, applied soci ology, sociology of knowledge
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Content; Acknowledgements; 1 Substantiating sociology; 2 Against variable analysis: thirty years on; 3 Against scaling: meaning and measurement; 4 Theory and observation: squaring the circularity problem; 5 On being empirical' without being empiricist'; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
11 The new rules of sociological measurementBibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
