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Abstract Calculus
Adjudicatory Strategy
analysis
Author_R Pawson
Boudon's Model
Boudon’s Model
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Category=JHB
Class
Comparative Predictive Validity
Complete State Description
Data Construction
Data Construction Model
empirical
Empirical Adjudication
Empirical Relationships
Empirical Sociology
empirical theory validation
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Imposition Problem
Incommensurability Problem
Individual Differences Scaling
interview data analysis
language
measurement
mechanism-based explanation
Multiple Indicator Measurement
Multiple Indicator Models
Mutual Knowledge
ordinary
phenomenological
Phenomenological Critique
Postempiricist Philosophy
realist methodology
regularities
Roundabout
scientific realism
social science epistemology
sociological
Sociological Measurement
sociological measurement standards
Sociological Research
sociology
Superimposed
Theory Laden Observation
Transformational Measurement
variable
Product details
- ISBN 9781138161825
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Feb 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First Published in 2004. This challenging and pioneering work aims to provide a measure (a set of standards) for measures (empirical data) in sociological research. It argues that the critique of positivism has resulted in a methodological impasse. Criticism has pulled the rug from under positivist method but left nothing in its place. In a devastating and systematic critique the author rejects phenomenological and relativist objections to sociological measurement. A wholly new model for the empirical substantiation of sociological theory is developed based on an examination of scientific measurement techniques and a reading of realist philosophical principles. Unlike many books heralding a new direction in sociology, A MEASURE FOR MEASURES goes beyond meta-theory, providing detailed examples to show how the 'new realism' can provide a viable empirical method.
Ray Pawson is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds.
