Christofer Edling
Professor
Analytical sociology is a research strategy
Författare
Summary, in English
Analytical sociology is a methodological strategy aimed at refining theoretically informed
empirical social research. Given the central assumption that the role of sociology is to
explain macro level phenomena, analytical sociology makes pragmatic use of abstract models of
social action and interaction, such as the DBO-model. The realization that it is not a philosophy
or a psychology, nor a universal theory of the social, implies that it is by actually explaining social
phenomena that analytical sociology will make a name for itself.
empirical social research. Given the central assumption that the role of sociology is to
explain macro level phenomena, analytical sociology makes pragmatic use of abstract models of
social action and interaction, such as the DBO-model. The realization that it is not a philosophy
or a psychology, nor a universal theory of the social, implies that it is by actually explaining social
phenomena that analytical sociology will make a name for itself.
Avdelning/ar
- Sociologi
Publiceringsår
2012
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Sociologica
Volym
2012
Issue
1
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Societa Editrice Il Mulino
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- action
- analytical sociology
- social mechanism
- social action system
- explanation
- sociology
- sociologi
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1971-8853