Generally Speaking: An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology Zerubavel Eviatar
Generally Speaking: An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology Zerubavel Eviatar In this invitation to concept-driven sociology, defying the conventional split between theory and methodology (as well…
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Generally Speaking: An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology Zerubavel Eviatar
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. Disregarding conventionally noted substantive variability in order to uncover conventionally disregarded formal commonalities, Generally Speaking draws on cross-cultural, cross-historical, 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.