R. Pawson

A Measure for Measures (eBook, PDF)

A Manifesto for Empirical Sociology

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Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2004. This challenging and pioneering work aims to provide a measure (a set of standards) for measures (empirical data) in sociological research. It argues that the critique of positivism has resulted in a methodological impasse. Criticism has pulled the rug from under positivist method but left nothing in its place. In a devastating and systematic critique the author rejects phenomenological and relativist objections to sociological measurement. A wholly new model for the empirical substantiation of sociological theory is developed based on an examination of scientific measurement techniques and a reading of realist philosophical principles. Unlike many books heralding a new direction in sociology, A MEASURE FOR MEASURES goes beyond meta-theory, providing detailed examples to show how the 'new realism' can provide a viable empirical method.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134972906
• Artikelnr.: 42975729

Autorenporträt

Ray Pawson is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Substantiating sociology
PART ONE: DESPERATE MEASURES
2. Against variable analysis: thirty years on
3. Against scaling: meaning and measurement
PART TWO: A MEASURE OF REALISM
4. Theory and observation: squaring the circularity problem
5. On being 'empirical' without being 'empiricist'
PART THREE: PRACTICAL MEASURES
6. From variables to mechanisms (and back again)
7. Closure: actualism versus realism
8. Explanatory networks: the conceptual domain of class
9. Choosing class concepts: from indicator selection to theory adjudication
10. Constructing class data: imposition and control in the interview
11. The new rules of sociological measurement
Bibliography
Index