Derek Layder
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 178653 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Derek Layder |
| PRENOMES | Derek |
| SOBRENOME | Layder |
| ASSINATURA | LAYDER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3815-3147 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 755 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Social sciences, social reality and the false division between theory and method
Concept-Formation, Complexity and Social Domains
This article reports on an ethnographic study focusing on the impact of in-cell television on prison life in a male adult prison in the UK. Layder's social domains model (1997; 2006) and his adaptive analysis (1998; 2014), were used to give shape, meaning and organization to data from interviews with prisoners and staff and also television-use diaries. The research highlighted how television is adopted for its care-giving qualities ( Knight 2015 …
Structure, Interaction and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory)
A central problem in contemporary social theory is that of providing an account of social interaction that does justice both to the self-monitoring capacities of the individuals involved and to the society that ‘frames’ the interaction. This book attempts to resolve this problem, arguing for an objectivist or ‘structuralist’ account which does not undervalue the importance of the indexical and negotiated aspects of interaction, and which takes se…
Methods, Sex and Madness
Social research yields knowledge which powerfully affects our daily lives. The 'facts' it generates shape not just how we see ourselves and others, but also whether or not we see the existing status quo as normal, just and legitimate. This book examines and questions the methods used by social researchers to produce such knowledge. It focuses chiefly on research into human sexuality and madness. It introduces and critically assesses everything fr…
Modern Social Theory
This book is intended for undergraduate courses in social theory for second and third year sociology students, as well as postgraduate and academic researchers. Secondary markets include social psychology, social geography, social anthopology, cultural studies
Social and Personal Identity
Emotion in social life
Social and Personal Identity
Sociological practice
Sociological Practice
Methods, Sex and Madness
Methods, Sex and Madness
Contemporary Sociological Theory
Methods, sex, and madness
"Social research yields knowledge which powerfully affects our daily lives. The 'facts' it generates shape not just how we see ourselves and others, but also whether or not we see the existing status quo as normal, just and legitimate. Everyone, particularly students of the social sciences, should therefore examine and question the methods used by social researchers to produce such knowledge. This book will help them to do so, focusing chiefly on…
Understanding social theory
A Map of the Terrain PART ONE: THE VIEW FROM ON HIGH The Legacy of Talcott Parsons Varieties of Marxism PART TWO: WHERE THE ACTION IS Meanings, Situations and Experience Perceiving and Accomplishing PART THREE: BREAKING FREE AND BURNING BRIDGES Foucault and the Postmodern Turn Beyond Micro and Macro: Abandoning False Problems Gidden's Structuration Theory PART FOUR: ONLY CONNECT: FORGING LINKS Linking Agency and Structure and Macro and Micro Habe…
Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology
The Empirical Correlates of Action and Structure
The paper attempts to link theoretical ideas concerning the relation of agency and structure with empirical research on the transition from school to work. In particular, some of the propositions of structuration theory are assessed in terms of their applicability to empirical research which investigates the impact of individual and structural variables on movement into the labour market, and the way the variables combine to determine entry into …
The Possibility of Realism
In this book I shall inquire into the prospects for, and problems of, the new realist philosophy of social science as specifically applied to sociology and social psychology. In large part, I want to argue positively and suggest that the realist project is a step in the right direction towards a more informed and sophisticated framework with which to understand social analysis and the activities of social scientists in general. Thus, in this sens…
Behaviour and Social Ontology
In this chapter I want to turn to some issues connected with the explanation of social behaviour which are crucial to the realist programme. However, by way of introduction to these issues I want to look at the work of Winch and Louch because, I would argue, in a sense they set the agenda for subsequent work on this area, including that of the realists. As a correlate of this I want to argue that the Winch-Louch legacy has left a clear imprint on…
Causality, Acausality and the Implicate Order
In chapters 2 and 3 I have concentrated primarily on the epistemological context of realist knowledge claims. That is, I have dealt with such things as the origins, the scope, the nature and validity of knowledge produced under the auspices of realism. In this chapter, I want to begin to address some primarily ontological issues. In chapter 1 I suggested that the realist model (or models) of social ontology unnecessarily constricts the domain of …
The Language of Social Analysis
In previous chapters, particularly the last, I argued that the humanist challenge to positivism had the effect of leaving problematic residual imprints on the realist project as a result of realism’s attempt to embrace the insights of humanism. In this chapter I want to extend this line of thought into a discussion of the role of language in social scientific analysis, particularly as this concerns the question of the relation between theory and …
The Prospects for Realism
Throughout this book I have tried to identify a cluster of important issues and problems that tie in with the project of realism as it relates to sociology and social psychology in particular, and to the social sciences more generally. This has involved identifying the key tenets of the realist project and subjecting them to a constructive critique. The 'constructive' element is all important since my intention has been to lend support to realism…
Epistemology and Levels of Discourse
In this chapter I begin the task of developing a framework with which to understand the relationship between different levels of discourse and activity within the social sciences of sociology and social psychology. Ultimately, my purpose is to place realism within the stratified discursive elements of social science. Realism must be able to situate itself in this stratified context in order that its interventions and prescriptions will be firmly …
Realism and Validity Claims
As I intimated in the previous chapter, I think that realism should take seriously the debate between empiricism and rationalism with a view to obtaining a precise estimation of where it stands in the debate. In what follows I characterise the relationship between empiricism and rationalism as a continuum in terms of which one can situate particular kinds of knowledge (or discourse) according to their differing degrees of commitment to each of th…
Structuration Theory
Structure, Interaction and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory)
A central problem in contemporary social theory is that of providing an account of social interaction that does justice both to the self-monitoring capacities of the individuals involved and to the society that ‘frames’ the interaction. This book attempts to resolve this problem, arguing for an objectivist or ‘structuralist’ account which does not undervalue the importance of the indexical and negotiated aspects of interaction, and which takes se…
Sociological Practice
Understanding social theory
A Map of the Terrain PART ONE: THE VIEW FROM ON HIGH The Legacy of Talcott Parsons Varieties of Marxism PART TWO: WHERE THE ACTION IS Meanings, Situations and Experience Perceiving and Accomplishing PART THREE: BREAKING FREE AND BURNING BRIDGES Foucault and the Postmodern Turn Beyond Micro and Macro: Abandoning False Problems Gidden's Structuration Theory PART FOUR: ONLY CONNECT: FORGING LINKS Linking Agency and Structure and Macro and Micro Habe…
Modern Social Theory
This book is intended for undergraduate courses in social theory for second and third year sociology students, as well as postgraduate and academic researchers. Secondary markets include social psychology, social geography, social anthopology, cultural studies
The Realist Image in Social Science
A constructive critique and development of the new realist philosophy of social science as it is specifically applied to sociology and social psychology. Dr Layder argues that while the realist projec
Power, Structure and Agency 1
Structure, Interaction and Social Theory
Contemporary Sociological Theory
Social Reality as Figuration
Elias has proposed what he suggests is a novel characterisation of social reality, in the shape of the concept of 'figuration'. Elias claims that this concept, and the 'figurational sociology' which analytically supports it, transcend extant approaches. Elias also claims to have 'transcended' epistemological debates such as rationalism versus empiricism, as well as such categories as 'true' and 'false', by appeal to the notion of the 'object adeq…
Grounded Theory
The Relation of Theory and Method
This paper critically scrutinizes the thesis put forward by Jennifer Platt in a recent article in The Sociological Review about the general relation between theory and method, based on her investigation of the specific example of functionalism and survey research in post-war US sociology. The present paper questions the extent to which Platt's analysis and general conclusions mask important levels of connectedness between theory and method
Structuration Theory
Symbolic Interaction
Beyond Empiricism? The Promise of Realism
Sources and Levels of Commitment in Actors' Careers
This article analyzes the different sources and levels of occupational commitment of professional actors and actresses in England. The sources and levels of commitment are seen to be linked to different segments of the internal labor market in acting, which provides the economic underpinning of actors' careers. The closer actors and actresses move to the apex of the hierarchy, the more positive sources of commitment become available to them
The Empirical Correlates of Action and Structure
The paper attempts to link theoretical ideas concerning the relation of agency and structure with empirical research on the transition from school to work. In particular, some of the propositions of structuration theory are assessed in terms of their applicability to empirical research which investigates the impact of individual and structural variables on movement into the labour market, and the way the variables combine to determine entry into …
Problems in Accounting for the Individual in Marxist-Rationalist Theoretical Discourse
This paper suggests that Marxist analyses in general, and those underpinned by a rationalist philosophy of science in particular, evince great difficulty in accounting for the relationship between individuals and the social systemic constraints which influence their behaviour and consciousness. This is because of the assumption that such an account would necessarily be reductionist and empiricist. This paper argues that this is not the case and t…
The Philosophical Bogeyman
When my article 'The relation of theory and method: causal relatedness, historical contingency and beyond' appeared in The Sociological Review August 1988, it was followed by two critical responses in the same issue by Platt and Bulmer. In my opinion both of these responses seriously misrepresent and profoundly misunderstand my arguments. In what follows I identify the more salient of these errors and attempt to rectify them
Social Theory and Modern Sociology
Preface. 1. What Do Sociologists Do?. 2. Nine Theses on the Future of Sociology. 3. The Social Sciences and Philosophy -- Trends in Recent Social Theory. 4. Structuralism, Post-Structuralism and the Production of Culture. 5. Erving Goffman as a Systematic Social Theorist. 6. Time and Social Organization. 7. Nation-States and Violence. 8. Social Theory and Problems of Macroeconomics. 9. Out of the Orrery: E.P.Thompson on Consciousness and History.…
Social Interaction and Consciousness
The Sociology of Occupations
Problems in Accounting for the Individual in Marxist-Rationalist Theoretical Discourse
This paper suggests that Marxist analyses in general, and those underpinned by a rationalist philosophy of science in particular, evince great difficulty in accounting for the relationship between individuals and the social systemic constraints which influence their behaviour and consciousness. This is because of the assumption that such an account would necessarily be reductionist and empiricist. This paper argues that this is not the case and t…
Social Interaction and Consciousness
Grounded Theory
Symbolic Interaction
Structure, Interaction and Social Theory
Sources and Levels of Commitment in Actors' Careers
This article analyzes the different sources and levels of occupational commitment of professional actors and actresses in England. The sources and levels of commitment are seen to be linked to different segments of the internal labor market in acting, which provides the economic underpinning of actors' careers. The closer actors and actresses move to the apex of the hierarchy, the more positive sources of commitment become available to them
Bringing People and Society Back in Again
Beyond Empiricism? The Promise of Realism
Power, Structure and Agency 1
Social Reality as Figuration
Elias has proposed what he suggests is a novel characterisation of social reality, in the shape of the concept of 'figuration'. Elias claims that this concept, and the 'figurational sociology' which analytically supports it, transcend extant approaches. Elias also claims to have 'transcended' epistemological debates such as rationalism versus empiricism, as well as such categories as 'true' and 'false', by appeal to the notion of the 'object adeq…
Social Theory and Modern Sociology
Preface. 1. What Do Sociologists Do?. 2. Nine Theses on the Future of Sociology. 3. The Social Sciences and Philosophy -- Trends in Recent Social Theory. 4. Structuralism, Post-Structuralism and the Production of Culture. 5. Erving Goffman as a Systematic Social Theorist. 6. Time and Social Organization. 7. Nation-States and Violence. 8. Social Theory and Problems of Macroeconomics. 9. Out of the Orrery: E.P.Thompson on Consciousness and History.…
The Relation of Theory and Method
This paper critically scrutinizes the thesis put forward by Jennifer Platt in a recent article in The Sociological Review about the general relation between theory and method, based on her investigation of the specific example of functionalism and survey research in post-war US sociology. The present paper questions the extent to which Platt's analysis and general conclusions mask important levels of connectedness between theory and method
The Philosophical Bogeyman
When my article 'The relation of theory and method: causal relatedness, historical contingency and beyond' appeared in The Sociological Review August 1988, it was followed by two critical responses in the same issue by Platt and Bulmer. In my opinion both of these responses seriously misrepresent and profoundly misunderstand my arguments. In what follows I identify the more salient of these errors and attempt to rectify them
The Possibility of Realism
In this book I shall inquire into the prospects for, and problems of, the new realist philosophy of social science as specifically applied to sociology and social psychology. In large part, I want to argue positively and suggest that the realist project is a step in the right direction towards a more informed and sophisticated framework with which to understand social analysis and the activities of social scientists in general. Thus, in this sens…
Behaviour and Social Ontology
In this chapter I want to turn to some issues connected with the explanation of social behaviour which are crucial to the realist programme. However, by way of introduction to these issues I want to look at the work of Winch and Louch because, I would argue, in a sense they set the agenda for subsequent work on this area, including that of the realists. As a correlate of this I want to argue that the Winch-Louch legacy has left a clear imprint on…
Causality, Acausality and the Implicate Order
In chapters 2 and 3 I have concentrated primarily on the epistemological context of realist knowledge claims. That is, I have dealt with such things as the origins, the scope, the nature and validity of knowledge produced under the auspices of realism. In this chapter, I want to begin to address some primarily ontological issues. In chapter 1 I suggested that the realist model (or models) of social ontology unnecessarily constricts the domain of …
The Language of Social Analysis
In previous chapters, particularly the last, I argued that the humanist challenge to positivism had the effect of leaving problematic residual imprints on the realist project as a result of realism’s attempt to embrace the insights of humanism. In this chapter I want to extend this line of thought into a discussion of the role of language in social scientific analysis, particularly as this concerns the question of the relation between theory and …
The Prospects for Realism
Throughout this book I have tried to identify a cluster of important issues and problems that tie in with the project of realism as it relates to sociology and social psychology in particular, and to the social sciences more generally. This has involved identifying the key tenets of the realist project and subjecting them to a constructive critique. The 'constructive' element is all important since my intention has been to lend support to realism…
Epistemology and Levels of Discourse
In this chapter I begin the task of developing a framework with which to understand the relationship between different levels of discourse and activity within the social sciences of sociology and social psychology. Ultimately, my purpose is to place realism within the stratified discursive elements of social science. Realism must be able to situate itself in this stratified context in order that its interventions and prescriptions will be firmly …
Realism and Validity Claims
As I intimated in the previous chapter, I think that realism should take seriously the debate between empiricism and rationalism with a view to obtaining a precise estimation of where it stands in the debate. In what follows I characterise the relationship between empiricism and rationalism as a continuum in terms of which one can situate particular kinds of knowledge (or discourse) according to their differing degrees of commitment to each of th…
Structuration Theory
The Realist Image in Social Science
A constructive critique and development of the new realist philosophy of social science as it is specifically applied to sociology and social psychology. Dr Layder argues that while the realist projec
The Empirical Correlates of Action and Structure
The paper attempts to link theoretical ideas concerning the relation of agency and structure with empirical research on the transition from school to work. In particular, some of the propositions of structuration theory are assessed in terms of their applicability to empirical research which investigates the impact of individual and structural variables on movement into the labour market, and the way the variables combine to determine entry into …
Methods, sex, and madness
"Social research yields knowledge which powerfully affects our daily lives. The 'facts' it generates shape not just how we see ourselves and others, but also whether or not we see the existing status quo as normal, just and legitimate. Everyone, particularly students of the social sciences, should therefore examine and question the methods used by social researchers to produce such knowledge. This book will help them to do so, focusing chiefly on…
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