Conclusion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20040481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melanie S Archer (0000-0002-4632-775X, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 292-315 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Reflexive Imperative in Late Modernity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781139108058.009 |
| OpenAlex | W4248908895 |
| ISBN | 9781139108058 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
As is often the case, to come to the end of a book is to start the next one. This is so here because a small qualitative study, which cannot pretend to be representative even of university students within one institution, furnishes no basis for inferential statistics and no justification for extrapolation to the increasingly varied groups constituting the population of Britain. However, as a theoretico-empirical study, what it does provide is food for further theoretical consideration; for something between unregulated speculation and theoretical propositions warranted by empirical substantiation. In short, the findings presented have implications worth entertaining in theorizing about future transformations of the social order. Their examination is itself a response to the ‘situational logic of opportunity’, since it too involves an exploration of ‘contingent compatibilities’ that are the ultimate constituents of the increase in ‘variety’ today
Critical Realism in Sociology · Cultural, Psychoanalytic, and Sociopolitical Reflections · Medicine · Political and Economic history of UK and US
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |