Time and Method

This book argues that there is a need to rethink time in social research. It: sets out key empirical challenges of social time and temporality; problematizes time in key quantitative, qualitative and simulation social research methods; and proposes some methodological alternatives that seek to tackle time and temporality empirically from innovative angles.

List of contents

Introduction. Part I: Complex Social Temposcapes 1. Time and Social Science 2. Time and Complexity 3. Time, Scale and Space Part II: How Methods Fail Social Time 4. Four Time Challenges 5. Time and Measurement 6. Time and Social Causation Part III: Methodological Alternatives 7. Time, Materiality and Method 8. Category and Classification 9. Continuity, Repetition and Boundary States. Conclusion

Summary

This book argues that there is a need to rethink time in social research. It: sets out key empirical challenges of social time and temporality; problematizes time in key quantitative, qualitative and simulation social research methods; and proposes some methodological alternatives that seek to tackle time and temporality empirically from innovative angles.

Product details

• Authors: Emma Uprichard, Emma (University of Warwick Uprichard, Uprichard Emma
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.04.2018, delayed
• EAN: 9781138195493
• ISBN: 978-1-138-19549-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods; Routledge Advances in Research Methods
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Social Theory, History: theory & methods, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Anthropology, Philosophy, Society & culture: general, Politics & government, Politics and government, Social research & statistics, Society and culture: general, Human Geography, Social research and statistics, Research methods: general, History: theory and methods