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An essential new collection of reflections on the theory and methodology of social science research.
List of contents
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Håkon Leiulfsrud and Peter Sohlberg
2 How Do You Establish the Research Object in Sociology?
Richard Swedberg
3 Historical Epistemology, Sociology, and Statistics
Johs Hjellbrekke
4 Constructing Social Structure
John¿Scott
5 Constructing the Conceptual Tools for the Global South
David Fasenfest and Raju J.¿Das
6 The Significance of Social Bonds
Göran¿Ahrne
7 Organisations as a Sociological Research Object
How Schools Reproduce Inequality
Raimund¿Hasse
8 Broken Promises and Lost Qualities
Constructing Management as a Research Object in Sociology and Anthropology
Emil André Røyrvik
9 On Thought Experiments in Sociology and the Power of Thinking
Michela Betta and Richard Swedberg
10 Constructing and Researching the Object in Time and Space
Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen
11 Academic Star Wars
Pierre Bourdieu and Dorothy E. Smith on Academic Work
Karin Widerberg
12 Living Theory
Reflections on Four Decades of Teaching Social Theory
Michael Burawoy
13 Postscript
Peter Sohlberg and Håkon Leiulfsrud
Index
About the author
Håkon Leiulfsrud is Professor in Sociology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has published his work in the field of sociology with a special interest in social inequality, class and social stratification, labour market, and welfare state issues. He has been teaching sociological theory, courses in social inequality and welfare state, and research methods in Trondheim since the mid 1990s.
Peter Sohlberg is Professor in Philosophy of Social Science and Sociology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has published his work in the fields of philosophy of science, sociology, and social psychology. He has been teaching social theory and philosophy of social science since the early 1990s in Uppsala, Stockholm and Trondheim. His most recent book is
Functionalist Construction Work in Social Science. The Lost Heritage.
Summary
An essential new collection of reflections on the theory and methodology of social science research.
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