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Beschreibung
This book offers a guide to sociology that explores its theoretical and methodological dimensions. Aiming to provide the reader with a sense of the reasoned character of the discipline, it traces how different theories and methods relate to one another, exploring the particular problems they spawn and the debates that have arisen in response.
This book offers a guide to sociology that explores its theoretical and methodological dimensions. Aiming to provide the reader with a sense of the reasoned character of the discipline, it traces how different theories and methods relate to one another, exploring the particular problems they spawn and the debates that have arisen in response.
Über den Autor

JOHN HUGHES has published widely in the fields of political socialization, political sociology, and research methods.

WES SHARROCK is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. His research interests include philosophical methodology, sociology of science/knowledge, ethnomethodology and methodology.

Zusammenfassung
Student friendly style and heavy emphasis on pedagogical features throughout
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction: Sociology: Pluralism or Disarray?
PART 1: THE POSITIVIST PROJECT Building a Science of Sociology
Variable Analysis and Measurement
Interviews and Questions
The Social Survey and Multivariate Analysis
The Demise of Positivism
PART 2: THE QUALITATIVE TURN Introduction: The Contest Over Realism
The Method of Fieldwork
Explorations in Actor's Point of View
Data Collection versus Analysis
PART 3 The Refurbishing of Critical Sociology
Post-modernism, post-structuralism
Discourses and Research
Conclusion
Bibliography.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780333772867
ISBN-10: 0333772865
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hughes, John A.
Sharrock, W. W.
Hersteller: Bloomsbury 3PL
Macmillan Education
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Macmillan Education, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, productsafety@springernature.com
Maße: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: John A. Hughes (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2007
Gewicht: 0,547 kg
Artikel-ID: 133610959