Method and Measurement in Sociology, fifty years on
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7103561 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin Smith (0000-0001-7457-9690, Cardiff University, corresponding author), Robin James Smith, Paul Atkinson (0000-0001-8740-6561, Cardiff University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 99-110 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Social Research Methodology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-5579 • E-ISSN: 1464-5300 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13645579.2015.1068010 |
| OpenAlex | W2202108192 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 32 |
In this article, we revisit Aaron Cicourel’s classic text Method and Measurement in Sociology. We consider the legacy and influence of the book in the context of the continued and urgent significance of such properly methodological inquiry. We examine, in particular, the ways in which Cicourel’s concern with decisions of measurement – as a situated, contingent and unavoidably practical accomplishment – makes a critical contribution to the understanding of measurement within sociology and serves as continued inspiration for the sociology of contemporary measurement practices in the context of proliferating regimes of institutional performance measurement and league tables, risk assessment and audit. We recommend a critical engagement with this text in the sociological examination of social inquiry – avoiding both overly subjective interpretations of social phenomena and the arbitrary application of crude categories to complex forms of organisation – and in sociology’s continued warrant to critically engage with the practices in and through which social reality is (re)produced
Context (archaeology · Economics · Epistemology · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of leisure · Warrant · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Management and Organizational Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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Sorting Things Out
The Social Organization of Juvenile Justice
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Common-Sense and Scientific Interpretation of Human Action
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Anthropology as Cultural Critique
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Doing Data
The Interaction Order
Theory and Method in a Study of Argentine Fertility
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Kundera's Immortality
The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |