Reinventing Evidence In Social Inquiry

Author : R. Biernacki
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137007281
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry written by R. Biernacki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting the dominant scientific method, 'coding,' with which investigators from sociology to literary criticism have sampled texts and catalogued their cultural messages, the author demonstrates that the celebrated hard outputs rest on misleading samples and on unfeasible classifying of the texts' meanings.

Author : Noortje Marres
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745684823
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Sociology written by Noortje Marres and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of interdisciplinary debates about new ways of knowing society that are emerging today at the interface of computing, media, social research and social life. Digital Sociology introduces key concepts, methods and understandings that currently inform the development of specifically digital forms of social enquiry. Marres assesses the relevance and usefulness of digital methods, data and techniques for the study of sociological phenomena and evaluates the major claim that computation makes possible a new ‘science of society’. As Marres argues, the digital does much more than inspire innovation in social research: it forces us to engage anew with fundamental sociological questions. We must learn to appreciate that the digital has the capacity to throw into crisis existing knowledge frameworks and is likely to reconfigure wider relations. This timely engagement with a key transformation of our age will be indispensable reading for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in digital sociology, digital media, computing and society.

Author : Andrew Brower Latz
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498243894
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Philosophy of Gillian Rose written by Andrew Brower Latz and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gillian Rose was one of the most important social philosophers of the twentieth century. This is the first book to present her social philosophy as a systematic whole. Based on new archive research and examining the full range of Rose's sources, it explains her theory of modern society, her unique version of ideology critique, and her views on law and mutual recognition. Brower Latz relates Rose's work to numerous debates in sociology and philosophy, such as the relation of theory to metatheory, emergence, and the relationship of sociology and philosophy. This book makes clear not only Rose's difficult texts but the entire structure of her thought, making her complete social theory accessible for the first time.

Author : Kristin Luker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674265491
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences written by Kristin Luker and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You might think that dancing doesn’t have a lot to do with social research, and doing social research is probably why you picked this book up in the first place. But trust me. Salsa dancing is a practice as well as a metaphor for a kind of research that will make your life easier and better.” Savvy, witty, and sensible, this unique book is both a handbook for defining and completing a research project, and an astute introduction to the neglected history and changeable philosophy of modern social science. In this volume, Kristin Luker guides novice researchers in: knowing the difference between an area of interest and a research topic; defining the relevant parts of a potentially infinite research literature; mastering sampling, operationalization, and generalization; understanding which research methods best answer your questions; beating writer’s block. Most important, she shows how friendships, non-academic interests, and even salsa dancing can make for a better researcher. “You know about setting the kitchen timer and writing for only an hour, or only 15 minutes if you are feeling particularly anxious. I wrote a fairly large part of this book feeling exactly like that. If I can write an entire book 15 minutes at a time, so can you.”

Author : David M. Boje
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787145514
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emerald Handbook of Management and Organization Inquiry written by David M. Boje and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emerald Handbook of Management and Organization Inquiry provides new and innovative insights into the field of management and organization inquiry. It provides extensive coverage of the 7S structure that has been so transformational for the field: Storytelling, System, Sustainability, Science, Spirit, Spirals, and Sociomateriality.

Author : Barbara Czarniawska
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 147390532X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Science Research written by Barbara Czarniawska and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clear, straightforward textbook embraces the practical reality of actually doing fieldwork. It tackles the common problems faced by new researchers head on, offering sensible advice and instructive case studies from the author’s own experience. Barbara Czarniawska takes us on a master class through the research process, encouraging us to revisit the various facets of the fieldwork research and helping us to reframe our own experiences. Combining a conversational style of writing with an impressive range of empirical examples she takes the reader from planning and designing research to collecting and analyzing data all the way to writing up and disseminating findings. This is a sophisticated introduction to a broad range of research methods and methodologies; it will be of great interest to anyone keen to revisit social research in the company of an expert guide.

Author : Emilie Morwenna Whitaker
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030840956
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflexivity in Social Research written by Emilie Morwenna Whitaker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides students and researchers with clear guidance through this tricky, but fundamental aspect of qualitative, ethnographic research. The chapters provide a concise overview that clarifies, illustrates and develops a highly popular methodological principle. To some extent, the book is critical of some contemporary approaches, particularly those that portray reflexivity as an optional, virtuous extra. Drawing on a broad range of anthropological, sociological and other sources, it illuminates through example as well as by precept.

Author : Kevin McMillan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135171774X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constitution of Social Practices written by Kevin McMillan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practices – specific, recurrent types of human action and activity – are perhaps the most fundamental "building blocks" of social reality. This book argues that the detailed empirical study of practices is essential to effective social-scientific inquiry. It develops a philosophical infrastructure for understanding human practices, and argues that practice theory should be the analytical centrepiece of social theory and the philosophy of the social sciences. What would social scientists’ research look like if they took these insights seriously? To answer this question, the book offers an analytical framework to guide empirical research on practices in different times and places. The author explores how practices can be identified, characterised and explained, how they function in concrete contexts and how they might change over time and space. The Constitution of Social Practices lies at the intersection of philosophy, social theory, cultural theory and the social sciences. It is essential reading for scholars in social theory and the philosophy of social science, as well as the broad range of researchers and students across the social sciences and humanities whose work stands to benefit from serious consideration of practices.

Author : M. Hewitson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137372400
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Causality written by M. Hewitson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the different attitudes of historians and other social scientists to questions of causality. It argues that historical theorists after the linguistic turn have paid surprisingly little attention to causes in spite of the centrality of causation in many contemporary works of history.

Author : Charles Thorpe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793625980
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociology in Post-Normal Times written by Charles Thorpe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Covid-19 pandemic and the disruptions of climate change are features of post-normal times. In Sociology in Post-Normal Times, Charles Thorpe contends that the modern project of creating normalcy within the nation state has broken down. Integral to this is sociology, which is the science of social reform. Drawing from the work of seminal theorists such as Zygmunt Bauman and Anthony Giddens, Thorpe contends that sociology's “society” is no longer viable because globalization has put an end to social reform, thus the assumptions and goals of sociology must be left behind in order to create a new global humanity. In the face of the pandemic and climate change, Sociology in Post-Normal Times demands no less than the birth of a global humanity beyond nation states as the precondition for human survival.