Sociological Reasoning

📖 The Scoop

Sociological Reasoning considers in systematic fashion the tensions which still persist between humanistic and scientistic versions of sociological explanation, between "soft" and "hard" science, or "qualitative" and "quantitative" methodologies. The book resists these facile dualities. It offers chapters which demonstrate the way in which theoretical speculation was integral to Passeron's research practice, and a final chapter which adopts philosophical discourse to present a powerful articulation of the distinctive character of social science. Written in part as a response to the influential ideas of Karl Popper, Passeron's book explores the truth claims of sociological explanation, and stimulates consideration of the validity of research enquiries and findings. - This edition contains a substantial introductory essay by Derek Robbins in which he situates the work of both Passeron and Bourdieu within the French tradition of the epistemology of the social sciences, and offers guidelines for differentiating between the positions adopted by these two thinkers

Genre: Social Science / Sociology / General (fancy, right?)