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Pawson, R

 
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Sinopsis

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.

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Ray Pawson is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds.

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This challenging and pioneering work aims to provide a measure (a set of standards) for measures (empirical data) in sociological research. This book goes beyond meta-theory, providing detailed examples to show how the 'new realism' can provide a viable empirical method.

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