This book is a guide to working with social science concepts.
Concepts are the prisms through which we see the social world. They
are foundational to the social science enterprise, and the quality
of investigations hinges in part on how well researchers make use
of them. Most social science concepts are drawn from ordinary
language used in everyday ways; however, many social scientists
"reconfigure" ordinary words to meet their research needs. They
tinker with the meanings of words to fit their theoretical aims and
make them precise, useful tools of measurement and comparison.
This book examines social science concepts through an
interpretivist lens with the aim of providing concrete conceptual
guidance for future research. Specifically, this book seeks to: 1)
identify characteristic dangers that attend the making and use of
reconfigured concepts; 2) lay out ways in which a select number of
interpretivist approaches have been used to mitigate these dangers;
3) introduce practical tools that rework these interpretivist
approaches into explicit and useable research methods; 4) show
concretely how these elucidation tools can be gainfully used by
social scientists working both within and outside of the
interpretivist tradition. It will be an essential guide for social
science research.
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