{"product_id":"generally-speaking-an-invitation-to-concept-driven-sociology-paperback","title":"Generally Speaking: An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEviatar Zerubavel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this invitation to \"concept-driven\" sociology, defying the conventional split between \"theory\" and \"methodology\" (as well as between \"quantitative\" and \"qualitative\" research), Eviatar Zerubavel introduces a yet unarticulated \"Simmelian\" method of theorizing specifically designed to reveal fundamental, often hidden social patterns. Insisting that it can actually be taught, he examines the theoretico-methodological process (revolving around the epistemic and analytical acts of focusing, generalizing, \"exampling,\" and analogizing) by which concept-driven researchers can distill generic social patterns from the culturally, historically, and domain-specific contexts in which they encounter them empirically. Disregarding conventionally noted substantive variability in order to uncover conventionally disregarded formal commonalities, \u003cem\u003eGenerally Speaking\u003c\/em\u003e draws on cross-cultural, cross-historical, cross-domain, and cross-level analogies in an effort to reveal formal parallels across\u003cbr\u003edisparate contexts. Using numerous examples from culturally and historically diverse contexts and a wide range of social domains while also disregarding scale, Zerubavel thus introduces a pronouncedly transcontextual \"generic\" sociology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEviatar Zerubavel\u003c\/strong\u003e is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. His publications include \u003cem\u003eThe Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2006); Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, and Community (Oxford University Press, 2011. Awarded Honorable mention in the 2012 PROSE Award \"Sociology and Social Work\" category); \u003cem\u003eHidden in Plain Sight: The Social Structure of Irrelevance \u003c\/em\u003e(Oxford University Press, 2015); and\u003cem\u003e Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable \u003c\/em\u003e(2018).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 27, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51788578357536,"sku":"9780197519288","price":56.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0be5fd23135271e948fd53a5919cabf5.webp?v=1780655034","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/generally-speaking-an-invitation-to-concept-driven-sociology-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}