Forms of life

Contributor(s):

Collins, Harry [Author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: MIT Press, 2019Description: 186 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9780262536646

Subject(s):

Contents:

1 Introduction 1 2 Participant Comprehension 29-- 3 Feeling Your Way in Interview-Based Fieldwork 41-- 4 The Road to Interactional Expertise 57-- 5 Comprehension, Relativism, Alternation, and Lies 65-- 6 More on the Nature of Sociology 79-- 7 The Stranger, Estrangement, and Estrangement Techniques 89-- 8 Bringing the Story Back Home 99-- 9 Tangible versus Inferential Experiments and Probes versus-- Surveys 109-- 10 Against Tribalism: Alternation and More 133-- 11 Saving the Science of Sociology 143-- Appendix 1: Code of Practice for Interviews (circa 1997) 151-- Appendix 2: Works by the Author Making Substantive Contributions to the-- Chapters 153-- Bonus Extra: When Interviews Don't Go According to Plan-A Quiz 157-- Acknowledgments 161-- Notes 163-- References 173-- Index 181--

Summary: 'Harry Collins is a highly respected and well-known sociologist of science and one of the leaders in the founding of that field. In a project that befits his stature in science studies and in the broader field of sociology, he has turned to a more general reflection on how he did what he has done, and to drawing lessons from his own experiences over many years--lessons about how to do the kind of thing he has so successfully done himself. In particular, he has thought intensively about methods, about the way he did the work that he is justly renowned for, and especially about the methodological issues that have stirred up so much passionate discussion in sociology. In this book he uses the materials he has produced over so many years of research to draw some basic lessons about how to go about studying collective activities, and especially about what bases our belief that we are learning something useful when we gather whatever kind of data we gather. The goal then here is to provide a comprehensive, critical, and reflexive introduction to interpretative qualitative social science methodology, based on an entire career's worth of professional experience, and told in a similarly accessible style to Collins's other books'-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	TBS Barcelona Libre acceso	HM511 COL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B01748

'Harry Collins is a highly respected and well-known sociologist of science and one of the leaders in the founding of that field. In a project that befits his stature in science studies and in the broader field of sociology, he has turned to a more general reflection on how he did what he has done, and to drawing lessons from his own experiences over many years--lessons about how to do the kind of thing he has so successfully done himself. In particular, he has thought intensively about methods, about the way he did the work that he is justly renowned for, and especially about the methodological issues that have stirred up so much passionate discussion in sociology. In this book he uses the materials he has produced over so many years of research to draw some basic lessons about how to go about studying collective activities, and especially about what bases our belief that we are learning something useful when we gather whatever kind of data we gather. The goal then here is to provide a comprehensive, critical, and reflexive introduction to interpretative qualitative social science methodology, based on an entire career's worth of professional experience, and told in a similarly accessible style to Collins's other books'-- Provided by publisher.