Constructing Social Research Objects

Constructionism in research practice

Edited by Håkon Leiulfsrud and Peter Sohlberg

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Constructing Social Research Objects is the third volume on theoretically driven methodology in the social sciences edited by Håkon Leiulfsrud and Peter Sohlberg. This essential new volume explains how to identify sociological research objects, and explores the art of living theory.

Theoretical concepts such as social structure, the Global South, social bonds, organizations and management are examined and developed by a broad range of the discipline's most influential authors. The methodological chapters—including critical notes on sociology and the uses of statistics, the value of thought experiments in sociology, how to research subjects in time and space, and the academic 'star war' between Pierre Bourdieu and Dorothy E. Smith—offer indispensable insights for researchers and students interested in theoretical construction work in the social sciences.

Contributors are: Göran Ahrne, Michela Betta, Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, Michael Burawoy, Raju Das, David Fasenfest, Raimund Hasse, Johs Hjellbrekke, Håkon Leiulfsrud, Emil A. Røyrvik, John Scott, Peter Sohlberg, Karin Widerberg and Richard Swedberg.

Author Bios

Håkon Leiulfsrud, Ph.D. (1991), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), is Professor in Sociology at NTNU. He has published his work in the field of sociology with a special interest in social inequality and social stratification, social change and work. He has been teaching sociological theory, qualitative methods and social stratification in Trondheim since the mid-1990s. Peter Sohlberg, Ph.D. (1997), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), is Professor in Philosophy of Social Science at NTNU. He has published monographs and articles in the fields of philosophy of science, sociology and social psychology. He has been teaching social theory and philosophy of social science since the early 1990s in Uppsala, Stockholm and Trondheim.

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Publication date: June 7, 2022

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction
Håkon Leiulfsrud and Peter Sohlberg

2 How Do You Establish the Research Object in Sociology?
Richard Swedberg

3 Historical Epistemology, Sociology, and Statistics
Johs Hjellbrekke

4 Constructing Social Structure
John Scott

5 Constructing the Conceptual Tools for the Global South
David Fasenfest and Raju J. Das

6 The Significance of Social Bonds
Göran Ahrne

7 Organisations as a Sociological Research Object
How Schools Reproduce Inequality
Raimund Hasse

8 Broken Promises and Lost Qualities
Constructing Management as a Research Object in Sociology and Anthropology
Emil André Røyrvik

9 On Thought Experiments in Sociology and the Power of Thinking
Michela Betta and Richard Swedberg

10 Constructing and Researching the Object in Time and Space
Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen

11 Academic Star Wars
Pierre Bourdieu and Dorothy E. Smith on Academic Work
Karin Widerberg

12 Living Theory
Reflections on Four Decades of Teaching Social Theory
Michael Burawoy

13 Postscript
Peter Sohlberg and Håkon Leiulfsrud

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