The dilemma of qualitative method : Herbert Blumer and the Chicago tradition / / Martyn Hammersley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807660403321
• Autore: Hammersley Martyn
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1989
• ISBN: 1-134-97877-4; 0-203-39290-6; 1-134-97878-2; 1-280-05368-2; 1-138-17546-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 300.92; 301/.01/8
• Soggetti: Chicago school of sociology; Sociology - Methodology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter One PHILOSOPHY AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; POSITIVISM; HISTORICISM; NEO-KANTIANISM; THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY; Psychology; Economics; Sociology; Anthropology; CONCLUSION; Chapter Two PRAGMATISM; CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE; WILLIAM JAMES; JOHN DEWEY; GEORGE HERBERT MEAD; CHARLES HORTON COOLEY; CONCLUSION; Chapter Three CHICAGO SOCIOLOGY; WILLIAM I.THOMAS: STUDYING THE SUBJECTIVE AND THE OBJECTIVE; ROBERT PARK AND CASE STUDY RESEARCH AT CHICAGO; EXAMPLES OF CHICAGO CASE STUDIESTypes of data used; Neglect of methodological issues; BLUMER'S EMPIRICAL WORK; CONCLUSION; Chapter Four CASE STUDY VERSUS STATISTICS: THE RISE OF SOCIOLOGICAL POSITIVISM; THE ARGUMENTS OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL POSITIVISTS; CRITICS OF THE POSITIVISTS; CONCLUSION; Chapter Five AGAINST THE TREND: BLUMER'S CRITIQUE OF QUANTITATIVE METHOD; ; STATISTICAL METHOD; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF SOCIAL PHENOMENA; THE ASSUMPTIONS UNDERLYING BLUMER'S CRITIQUE; Realism; Symbolic interactionism; Critical commonsensism; CONCLUSION; Chapter Six BLUMER'S CONCEPT OF SCIENCE; THE THESIS OF 1928APPRAISAL OF THE POLISH PEASANT; CONCLUSION; Chapter Seven BLUMER'S ALTERNATIVE: NATURALISTIC RESEARCH; BLUMER'S DESCRIPTION OF NATURALISTIC METHOD; Exploration; Inspection; ANALYTIC INDUCTION; GROUNDED THEORIZING; THE PATTERN MODEL; CONCLUSION; Chapter Eight AN ASSESSMENT OF NATURALISTIC RESEARCH; BLUMER'S ACCOUNT; DOES NATURALISTIC RESEARCH SATISFY SCIENTIFIC CRITERIA?; Verstehen; Distinctiveness of social phenomena; IS NATURALISTIC RESEARCH CONSISTENT WITH SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM?; ANALYTIC INDUCTION; GROUNDED THEORY; THE PATTERN MODEL; WHAT IS TO BE DONE?; RE-DEFINING SCIENCEDeveloping the pattern model; Other ways of redefining science; RE-DEFINING SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.