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On Sociology: Numbers, Narratives, and the Integration of Research and Theory

John H. Goldthorpe

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On Sociology brings together a collection of essays from the last ten years by one of the best-known and influential British sociologist, John H. Goldthorpe. The essays are concerned with the intellectual discovery of contemporary sociology. The collection begins with essays critical of various current tendencies in sociology and moves on to propose a new direction for the sociological mainstream. The essays combine the established strengths of quantitative sociology with recent developments in the theory of social action, especially rational action theory. The book then turns to specific examples of this style of sociology, particularly in the field of social stratification. The final essay takes up related issues in the history of sociology.

Inquiry and Change: The Troubled Attempt to Understand and Shape Society

Charles E. Lindblom

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How do ordinary citizens, government officials, opinion leaders, or social scientists attempt to solve social problems? This book analyzes our attempt to understand society so that we can reshape it. In so doing, the author largely bypasses both epistemology and contemporary highly abstract theory on knowledge and society in order to achieve a far more concrete analysis of discourse and inquiry in social problem solving. There is a tragic discrepancy, argues the author, between our abilities to solve problems and the difficulty of the problems to be solved. We must make do with inadequate information and inconclusive analyses, for the task is less one of learning the truth than of proceeding in inquiry and decisions when the truth cannot be known. He discusses the many obstacles that prevent us from solving social problems, focusing in particular on learned incompetence. According to the author, parents teach children not to think certain thoughts, and schools often engage more in indoctrination than education. Political rhetoric and commercial sales promotion feed a steady diet of misrepresentation. Social science does help. But because it is dependent on popular thought, it shares the impairments of thought found in both political figures and ordinary citizens. It also develops its own distinctive impairments. Although social science can be improved in ways that the author outlines in his book, social inquiry calls for such significant contributions from lay thought that it renders many conventional ideals of scientific problem solving inappropriate. The author contends that the route to better social problem solving is not through either scientific or popular consensus or agreement, however much they are valued in the world of science and social science, but through a competition of ideas. The index of a society's competence he states, is in its discord over ends, values, or purposes.

Second Steps in Sociology: Use and Misuse of Sociological Concepts

Marcel Fredericks, Steven I. Miller

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Research Methods (Society Now Series)

Steve Chapman

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An extremely valuable multi purpose book. This book is widely used for subjects like qualitative methods and sociology etc. Mcneill is very specfic in the details of research methods yet it covers a wide scope of resaerch methods. I have yet to have a better book on researh methods. I would recommend this book for students, civil workers as well as those who are self employed and would like to know how to improve on their business.It is too a great book for those who would like to start a new business.

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Written for the non-specialist, Research Methods provides a concise, yet thorough guide to all the central issues of social research methods. Each method discussed is followed by suggested activities which provide some practical experience of social research, aiming to stimulate a genuinely critical response to published studies.