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100			_aJayaram, N (Author)
245			_aSociological theory and research methods: _bA study in the philosophy of the social science / _cBy N. Jayaram
260			_aShimla _bIndian Institute of Advance Studies _c2023
300			_axvi, 435 Pages _c20 cm
365			_bRs. 685.00
505			_aContents List of Tables xi; Preface xii; 1. Introduction: Locating the Discourse 1; 1.1 Research: The Generator of Valid Knowledge; 1.2 Theory; 1.3 Logic; 1.4 Method; Overview of the Book; 2. Enlightenment and the Origins of Sociology: Comte and Positivism; 2.1 The Context; 2.2 Comte: 'The Founder-in-Chief' of Sociology; 2.3 The Foundations of Comte's Sociology; 2.4 The Methodology of Sociology; 2.5 The Ironical Turn in Comte's Thinking; 2.6 The Legacy of Comte; 3. Society as Objective Reality: Durkheim and the Study of 'Social Facts'; 3.1 The Background; 32 Intellectual Antecedents and Social Milieu; 3.3 Laying the Methodological Foundation of Sociology; 3.4 Obiectivist Ontology: Delineation of 'Social Facts'; 3.5 Positivist Epistemology: The Methodology for Studying Social Facts; 3.6 Championing the Autonomy of Sociology; 4. Community as Socio-Cultural Laboratory: Radcliffe-Brown, the Natural Science of Society, and Beyond 91; 4.1 Community as a Socio-Cultural Laboratory; 4.2 The British School of Social Anthropology: The Two Founders; 4.3 Radcliffe-Brown: 'The Natural Science of Society; 4.4 Methodological Turn in Social Anthropology; 5. Socio-Economic Dynamics as Historical Inevitability: Marx and the 'Materialist Conception of History' 121; 5.1 Ontology and Epistemology; 5.2 The Materialist Conception of History; 5.3 Capital and the Outcome of the Materialist Conception of History; 5.4 The Influence of Marx and His Methodology; 6. Hermeneutics and the Verstehen Approach: Weber and the Study of Social Action; 6.1 The Intellectual Background; 6.2 The Ontology of Systematic Sociology; 6.3 Generalisation through Interpretation: A Methodological Exercise 6.4 The Ideal Type as a Conceptual Tool; 6.5 Objectivity and Value-Freedom; 7. Society as Symbolic Interaction: The Contributions of Mead, Blumer, and Goffman 194; 7.1 Mead: Mind, Self, and Society; 7.2 Blumer and the Chicago School; 7.3 Kuhn and the Iowa School; 7.4 Goffman and the Dramaturgical go Approach; 8. The Life-World and the Social Construction of Reality: The Contributions of Schutz and Berger and Luckmann 224; 8.1 Husserl and Philosophical Phenomenology; 8.2 Schutz: Sociological Phenomenology; 8.3 Berger and Luckmann: The Social Construction of Reality; 8.4 Sociological Phenomenology and Research Methods; 9. Making Sense of Everyday Life: Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology; 9.1 The Genesis of Ethnomethodology; 9.2 The Intellectual Influence; 9.3 The Fundamentals; 9.4 The Methods of Ethnomethodology; 9.5 Ethnomethodology and Symbolic Interactionism; 9.6 Ethnomethodology and the Critique of Conventional Sociology; 10. Feminism and Sociology: Dorothy Smith and Standpoint Epistemology; Goffman and Gender Differences 281; 10.1 Feminism: A Brief Historical Introduction; 10.2 Dorothy Smith and 'A Sociology for Women; 10.3 Goffman on Gender Differences and Institutional Reflexivity; 11. Postmodernism and Sociology: Lyotard and the Critique of Scientific Knowledge 307; 11.1 Post-Modern, Postmodern, and Sociology; 11.2 Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, and Sociology; 11.3 Lyotard on 'Computerisation of Society and 'Mercantilisation of Knowledge'; 11.4 Postmodernism as 'Anti-Theory and its Methodological Implications; 11.5 Sociology Responds to Postmodernism; 12. Conclusion: On Dualisms and Eclecticism in Sociological Analysis 327; 12.1 The Trajectory: A Recapitulation; 12.2 Dualisms in Sociological Analysis; 12.3 Eclecticism in Sociological Analysis; References 353; Index of Names 407; Index of Subjects 419.
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