Sociological Methods
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Group |
| ISBN-13 | 9781315129945 |
| Open Library | OL31395341W |
| Total publications | 9 |
| Coverage period | 2017 - 2017 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 9 |
| Impact factor | 4 |
| h-index | 1 |
Sociological Methods
Sociological Methods
A Comparison of Participant Observation and Survey Data
This chapter is concerned with the validity of data secured by the informal anthropological research technique designated as "participant observation." An observer's perception of a community will be compared with data obtained by sample survey techniques. The various scaling procedures are, in part, designed to test the data for "internal consistency" in the general sense. The participant observer's knowledge of the community was based upon one …
What Is Wrong with Social Theory
The aim of theory in empirical science is to develop analytical schemes of the empirical world with which the given science is concerned. This is done by conceiving the world abstractly, that is, in terms of classes of objects and of relations between such classes. Theoretical schemes are essentially proposals as to the nature of such classes and of their relations where this nature is problematic or unknown. Such proposals become guides to inves…
Methodological Principles of Empirical Science
This chapter deals with symbolic interactionism not as a philosophical doctrine but as a perspective in empirical social science-as an approach designed to yield verifiable knowledge of human group life and human conduct. Accordingly, its methodological principles have to meet the fundamental requirements of empirical science. The chapter begins with the redundant assertion that an empirical science presupposes the existence of an empirical world…
Contemporary Theory in Sociology
Contemporary sociologists have been preoccupied with "theory," yet have seldom tried to make clear what a theory is. This chapter describes the essential features of a theory. It considers the intellectual confusions and practical difficulties that get in the way of the construction of theories in sociology. The chapter examines the differences between the main types of sociological theory. A theory consists, of a set of propositions , each stati…
Roles in Sociological Field Observations
Buford Junker has suggested four theoretically possible roles for sociologists conducting field work. These range from the complete participant at one extreme to the complete observer at the other. This chapter presents extensions of Junker's thinking growing out of systematic interviews with field workers whose experience had been cast in one or more of these patterns of researcher-subject relationship. Although basically similar to the complete…
The Quest for Universals in Sociological Research
Analytic induction is merely a special name for one formulation of a basic philosophy that research must be directed toward generalizations of universal rather than frequent applicability. But Florian Znaniecki's statement is unusually unequivocal and is specifically oriented toward sociological research. Hence it makes an excellent point of departure for a study of contrasting methodologies. Donald R. Cressey's statement regarding the violation …
The life and death of project Camelot
The United States Ambassador to Chile sent an urgent and angry cable to the State Department. Ambassador Ralph Dungan was confronted with a growing outburst of anti-Americanism from Chilean newspapers and intellectuals. The anti-American attacks that agitated Dungan had no direct connection with sending US troups to Santo Domingo. Their target was a mysterious and cloudy American research program called Project Camelot. Basically, Project Camelot…
The life and death of project Camelot
The United States Ambassador to Chile sent an urgent and angry cable to the State Department. Ambassador Ralph Dungan was confronted with a growing outburst of anti-Americanism from Chilean newspapers and intellectuals. The anti-American attacks that agitated Dungan had no direct connection with sending US troups to Santo Domingo. Their target was a mysterious and cloudy American research program called Project Camelot. Basically, Project Camelot…
Sociological Methods
Sociological Methods
A Comparison of Participant Observation and Survey Data
This chapter is concerned with the validity of data secured by the informal anthropological research technique designated as "participant observation." An observer's perception of a community will be compared with data obtained by sample survey techniques. The various scaling procedures are, in part, designed to test the data for "internal consistency" in the general sense. The participant observer's knowledge of the community was based upon one …
What Is Wrong with Social Theory
The aim of theory in empirical science is to develop analytical schemes of the empirical world with which the given science is concerned. This is done by conceiving the world abstractly, that is, in terms of classes of objects and of relations between such classes. Theoretical schemes are essentially proposals as to the nature of such classes and of their relations where this nature is problematic or unknown. Such proposals become guides to inves…
Methodological Principles of Empirical Science
This chapter deals with symbolic interactionism not as a philosophical doctrine but as a perspective in empirical social science-as an approach designed to yield verifiable knowledge of human group life and human conduct. Accordingly, its methodological principles have to meet the fundamental requirements of empirical science. The chapter begins with the redundant assertion that an empirical science presupposes the existence of an empirical world…
Contemporary Theory in Sociology
Contemporary sociologists have been preoccupied with "theory," yet have seldom tried to make clear what a theory is. This chapter describes the essential features of a theory. It considers the intellectual confusions and practical difficulties that get in the way of the construction of theories in sociology. The chapter examines the differences between the main types of sociological theory. A theory consists, of a set of propositions , each stati…
Roles in Sociological Field Observations
Buford Junker has suggested four theoretically possible roles for sociologists conducting field work. These range from the complete participant at one extreme to the complete observer at the other. This chapter presents extensions of Junker's thinking growing out of systematic interviews with field workers whose experience had been cast in one or more of these patterns of researcher-subject relationship. Although basically similar to the complete…
The Quest for Universals in Sociological Research
Analytic induction is merely a special name for one formulation of a basic philosophy that research must be directed toward generalizations of universal rather than frequent applicability. But Florian Znaniecki's statement is unusually unequivocal and is specifically oriented toward sociological research. Hence it makes an excellent point of departure for a study of contrasting methodologies. Donald R. Cressey's statement regarding the violation …
The life and death of project Camelot
The United States Ambassador to Chile sent an urgent and angry cable to the State Department. Ambassador Ralph Dungan was confronted with a growing outburst of anti-Americanism from Chilean newspapers and intellectuals. The anti-American attacks that agitated Dungan had no direct connection with sending US troups to Santo Domingo. Their target was a mysterious and cloudy American research program called Project Camelot. Basically, Project Camelot…