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In "Abductive Analysis," Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide
a new navigational map for constructing empirically based
generalizations in qualitative research. They outline an accessible
way to think about observations, methods, and theories that
nurtures theory-formation without locking it into predefined
conceptual boxes. The authors view research as continually moving
back and forth between a set of observations and theoretical
generalizations. To craft theory is to then pitch one's
observations in relation to other potential cases, both within and
without one's field. The book provides novel ways to approach the
challenges that plague qualitative researchers across the social
sciences--how to think about the relation between methods and
theories, how to conceptualize causality, how to construct axes of
variation, and how to leverage the researcher's community of
inquiry. "Abductive Analysis" is a landmark work that shows how a
pragmatist approach provides a more productive and fruitful way to
conduct qualitative research.
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Measuring Culture (Paperback)
John W. Mohr, Christopher A. Bail, Margaret Frye, Jennifer C. Lena, Omar Lizardo, …
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R576
Discovery Miles 5 760
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Social scientists seek to develop systematic ways to understand how
people make meaning and how the meanings they make shape them and
the world in which they live. But how do we measure such processes?
Measuring Culture is an essential point of entry for both those new
to the field and those who are deeply immersed in the measurement
of meaning. Written collectively by a team of leading qualitative
and quantitative sociologists of culture, the book considers three
common subjects of measurement-people, objects, and
relationships-and then discusses how to pivot effectively between
subjects and methods. Measuring Culture takes the reader on a tour
of the state of the art in measuring meaning, from discussions of
neuroscience to computational social science. It provides both the
definitive introduction to the sociological literature on culture
as well as a critical set of case studies for methods courses
across the social sciences.
Pragmatist thought is central to sociology. However, sociologists
typically encounter pragmatism indirectly, as a philosophy of
science or as an influence on canonical social scientists, rather
than as a vital source of theory, research questions, and
methodological reflection in sociology today. In The New Pragmatist
Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship
assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas in the
field and their historical and theoretical connection to classical
pragmatism. The book examines questions of methodology, social
interaction, and politics across the broad themes of inquiry,
agency, and democracy. Essays engage widely and deeply with topics
that motivate both pragmatist philosophy and sociology, including
rationality, speech, truth, expertise, and methodological
pluralism. Contributors include Natalie Aviles, Karida Brown,
Daniel Cefai, Mazen Elfakhani, Luis Flores, Daniel Huebner, Cayce
C. Hughes, Paul Lichterman, John Levi Martin, Ann Mische, Vontrese
D. Pamphile, Jeffrey N. Parker, Susan Sibley, Daniel Silver, Mario
Small, Iddo Tavory, Stefan Timmermans, Luna White, and Joshua
Whitford.
A novel investigation of pro bono marketing and the relationship
between goods, exploring the complex moral dimensions of
philanthropic advertising. The advertising industry may seem like
one of the most craven manifestations of capitalism, turning
consumption into a virtue. In Tangled Goods, authors Iddo Tavory,
Sonia Prelat, and Shelly Ronen consider an important dimension of
the advertising industry that appears to depart from the industry's
consumerist foundations: pro bono ad campaigns. Why is an industry
known for biting cynicism and cutthroat competition also an
industry in which people dedicate time and effort to "doing good"?
Interviewing over seventy advertising professionals and managers,
the authors trace the complicated meanings of the good in these pro
bono projects. Doing something altruistic, they show, often helps
employees feel more at ease working for big pharma or corporate
banks. Often these projects afford them greater creative leeway
than they normally have, as well as the potential for greater
recognition. While the authors uncover different motivations behind
pro bono work, they are more interested in considering how various
notions of the good shift, with different motivations and benefits
rising to the surface at different moments. This book sheds new
light on how goodness and prestige interact with personal and
altruistic motivations to produce value for individuals and
institutions and produces a novel theory of the relationship among
goods: one of the most fraught questions in sociological theory.
On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community
wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer
at 5:45am, before joining Los Angeles' traffic. Those who work
"Jewish jobs"--teachers, kosher supervisors, or rabbis--will stay
enmeshed in the Orthodox world throughout the workday. But even for
the majority of men who spend their days in the world of gentiles,
religious life constantly reasserts itself. Neighborhood fixtures
like Jewish schools and synagogues are always after more
involvement; evening classes and prayers pull them in; the streets
themselves seem to remind them of who they are. And so the week
goes, culminating as the sabbatical observances on Friday afternoon
stretch into Saturday evening. Life in this community, as Iddo
Tavory describes it, is palpably thick with the twin pulls of
observance and sociality. In Summoned, Tavory takes readers to the
heart of the exhilarating--at times exhausting--life of the
Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community. Just blocks from West
Hollywood's nightlife, the Orthodox community thrives next to the
impure sights, sounds, and smells they encounter every day. But to
sustain this life, as Tavory shows, is not simply a moral decision
they make. To be Orthodox is to be constantly called into being.
People are reminded of who they are as they are called upon by
organizations, prayer quorums, the nods of strangers, whiffs of
unkosher food floating through the street, or the rarer
Anti-Semitic remarks. Again and again, they find themselves
summoned both into social life and into their identity as Orthodox
Jews. At the close of Tavory's fascinating ethnography, we come
away with a better understanding of the dynamics of social worlds,
identity, interaction and self--not only in Beverly-La Brea, but in
society at large.
Pragmatist thought is central to sociology. However, sociologists
typically encounter pragmatism indirectly, as a philosophy of
science or as an influence on canonical social scientists, rather
than as a vital source of theory, research questions, and
methodological reflection in sociology today. In The New Pragmatist
Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship
assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas in the
field and their historical and theoretical connection to classical
pragmatism. The book examines questions of methodology, social
interaction, and politics across the broad themes of inquiry,
agency, and democracy. Essays engage widely and deeply with topics
that motivate both pragmatist philosophy and sociology, including
rationality, speech, truth, expertise, and methodological
pluralism. Contributors include Natalie Aviles, Karida Brown,
Daniel Cefai, Mazen Elfakhani, Luis Flores, Daniel Huebner, Cayce
C. Hughes, Paul Lichterman, John Levi Martin, Ann Mische, Vontrese
D. Pamphile, Jeffrey N. Parker, Susan Sibley, Daniel Silver, Mario
Small, Iddo Tavory, Stefan Timmermans, Luna White, and Joshua
Whitford.
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Measuring Culture (Hardcover)
John W. Mohr, Christopher A. Bail, Margaret Frye, Jennifer C. Lena, Omar Lizardo, …
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R1,905
Discovery Miles 19 050
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Social scientists seek to develop systematic ways to understand how
people make meaning and how the meanings they make shape them and
the world in which they live. But how do we measure such processes?
Measuring Culture is an essential point of entry for both those new
to the field and those who are deeply immersed in the measurement
of meaning. Written collectively by a team of leading qualitative
and quantitative sociologists of culture, the book considers three
common subjects of measurement-people, objects, and
relationships-and then discusses how to pivot effectively between
subjects and methods. Measuring Culture takes the reader on a tour
of the state of the art in measuring meaning, from discussions of
neuroscience to computational social science. It provides both the
definitive introduction to the sociological literature on culture
as well as a critical set of case studies for methods courses
across the social sciences.
A novel investigation of pro bono marketing and the relationship
between goods, exploring the complex moral dimensions of
philanthropic advertising. The advertising industry may seem like
one of the most craven manifestations of capitalism, turning
consumption into a virtue. In Tangled Goods, authors Iddo Tavory,
Sonia Prelat, and Shelly Ronen consider an important dimension of
the advertising industry that appears to depart from the industry's
consumerist foundations: pro bono ad campaigns. Why is an industry
known for biting cynicism and cutthroat competition also an
industry in which people dedicate time and effort to "doing good"?
Interviewing over seventy advertising professionals and managers,
the authors trace the complicated meanings of the good in these pro
bono projects. Doing something altruistic, they show, often helps
employees feel more at ease working for big pharma or corporate
banks. Often these projects afford them greater creative leeway
than they normally have, as well as the potential for greater
recognition. While the authors uncover different motivations behind
pro bono work, they are more interested in considering how various
notions of the good shift, with different motivations and benefits
rising to the surface at different moments. This book sheds new
light on how goodness and prestige interact with personal and
altruistic motivations to produce value for individuals and
institutions and produces a novel theory of the relationship among
goods: one of the most fraught questions in sociological theory.
From two experts in the field comes an accessible, how-to guide
that will help researchers think more productively about the
relation between theory and data at every stage of their work. In
Data Analysis in Qualitative Research, Iddo Tavory and Stefan
Timmermans provide a how-to guide filled with tricks of the trade
for researchers who hope to take excellent qualitative data and
transform it into powerful scholarship. In their previous book,
Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research, Timmermans and
Tavory offered a toolkit for innovative theorizing in the social
sciences. In this companion, they go one step further to show how
to uncover the surprising revelations that lie waiting in
qualitative data-in sociology and beyond. In this book, they lay
out a series of tools designed to help both novice and expert
scholars see and understand their data in surprising ways.
Timmermans and Tavory show researchers how to "stack the deck" of
qualitative research in favor of locating surprising findings that
may lead to theoretical breakthroughs, whether by engaging with
theory, discussing research strategies, or walking the reader
through the process of coding data. From beginning to end of a
research project, Data Analysis in Qualitative Research helps
social scientists pinpoint the most promising paths to take in
their approach.
From two experts in the field comes an accessible, how-to guide
that will help researchers think more productively about the
relation between theory and data at every stage of their work. In
Data Analysis in Qualitative Research, Iddo Tavory and Stefan
Timmermans provide a how-to guide filled with tricks of the trade
for researchers who hope to take excellent qualitative data and
transform it into powerful scholarship. In their previous book,
Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research, Timmermans and
Tavory offered a toolkit for innovative theorizing in the social
sciences. In this companion, they go one step further to show how
to uncover the surprising revelations that lie waiting in
qualitative data-in sociology and beyond. In this book, they lay
out a series of tools designed to help both novice and expert
scholars see and understand their data in surprising ways.
Timmermans and Tavory show researchers how to "stack the deck" of
qualitative research in favor of locating surprising findings that
may lead to theoretical breakthroughs, whether by engaging with
theory, discussing research strategies, or walking the reader
through the process of coding data. From beginning to end of a
research project, Data Analysis in Qualitative Research helps
social scientists pinpoint the most promising paths to take in
their approach.
On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community
wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer
at 5:45am, before joining Los Angeles' traffic. Those who work
"Jewish jobs"--teachers, kosher supervisors, or rabbis--will stay
enmeshed in the Orthodox world throughout the workday. But even for
the majority of men who spend their days in the world of gentiles,
religious life constantly reasserts itself. Neighborhood fixtures
like Jewish schools and synagogues are always after more
involvement; evening classes and prayers pull them in; the streets
themselves seem to remind them of who they are. And so the week
goes, culminating as the sabbatical observances on Friday afternoon
stretch into Saturday evening. Life in this community, as Iddo
Tavory describes it, is palpably thick with the twin pulls of
observance and sociality. In Summoned, Tavory takes readers to the
heart of the exhilarating--at times exhausting--life of the
Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community. Just blocks from West
Hollywood's nightlife, the Orthodox community thrives next to the
impure sights, sounds, and smells they encounter every day. But to
sustain this life, as Tavory shows, is not simply a moral decision
they make. To be Orthodox is to be constantly called into being.
People are reminded of who they are as they are called upon by
organizations, prayer quorums, the nods of strangers, whiffs of
unkosher food floating through the street, or the rarer
Anti-Semitic remarks. Again and again, they find themselves
summoned both into social life and into their identity as Orthodox
Jews. At the close of Tavory's fascinating ethnography, we come
away with a better understanding of the dynamics of social worlds,
identity, interaction and self--not only in Beverly-La Brea, but in
society at large.
In "Abductive Analysis," Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide
a new navigational map for constructing empirically based
generalizations in qualitative research. They outline an accessible
way to think about observations, methods, and theories that
nurtures theory-formation without locking it into predefined
conceptual boxes. The authors view research as continually moving
back and forth between a set of observations and theoretical
generalizations. To craft theory is to then pitch one's
observations in relation to other potential cases, both within and
without one's field. The book provides novel ways to approach the
challenges that plague qualitative researchers across the social
sciences--how to think about the relation between methods and
theories, how to conceptualize causality, how to construct axes of
variation, and how to leverage the researcher's community of
inquiry. "Abductive Analysis" is a landmark work that shows how a
pragmatist approach provides a more productive and fruitful way to
conduct qualitative research.
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