Generally Speaking An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology【電子書籍】[ Eviatar Zerubavel ]

＜p＞In this invitation to "concept-driven" sociology, defying the conventional split between "theory" and "methodology" (as well as between "quantitative" and "qualitative" research), Eviatar Zerubavel introduces a yet unarticulated "Simmelian" 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, "exampling," 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, ＜em＞Generally Speaking＜/em＞ draws on cross-cultural, cross-historical, cross-domain, and cross-level analogies in an effort to reveal formal parallels acr．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る