New Rules of Sociological Method: A Positive Critique of Interpretative Sociologies Anthony Giddens
Publisher: Wiley

May 28, 2013 - Through an interpretive case study in a major US financial institution, the paper uses Giddens' structuration theory to examine how it adjusts to the demands of protecting itself against new operational risks. Aug 27, 2013 - No, the problem lies not in the inherent unsuitability of economics for scientific thinking as in the sociology of the economics profession — a profession that somehow, at least in macro, has ceased rewarding research that produces successful .. Jan 21, 2014 - Bringing the cultural methods of trope analysis to the historical sociology of hegemony, this article shows that cultural structures are both responses to specific historical moments and the systems of meaning that help shape future outcomes. Mar 15, 2006 - After an overview (section 2), this article presents a review of the literature and issues on the sociopolitical side of tax sociology with the analysis of: tax representations and types of State (3), the sociological functional approach (4), tax . Cambridge University Press, New York. Dec 10, 2013 - Cultural studies is just such an offspring of sociology – although it had other parents, too, particularly in the literary field – and shares with sociology intellectual ancestors, substantive concerns and qualitative methods. Equipped with a radical phenomenological gaze, this article enables a critical inquiry about a certain interpretative impulse that propelled much of sociological theories and methods ever since the inception of sociology. May 3, 2012 - The late modern responses to, and reactions against, foundationalism in various schools in the human and social sciences provide a springboard for a new beginning in sociological inquiry. Gerring, John, Daniel Ziblatt, Johan van Gorp and Julián Arévalo (2011) An Levi, Margaret (1988) Of Rule and Revenue. The discussion and results of our study are expressed in three propositions: New Rules of Sociological Method: A Positive Critique of interpretative Sociologies, London: Hutchinson. May 15, 2012 - The field of historical sociology, starting with Max Weber, has a big literature on how ancient states work, from tax collection in the Roman Empire to state power in China and the Ottoman Empire. Gerring, John (2012) Social Science Methodology: A Unified Framework. New Rules of Sociological Method: A Positive Critique of Interpretive Sociologies, London: Hutchinson. Empirically, this trope analysis is based on a reading of the shifting uses of the expression 'Vietnam Syndrome' in the New York Times and an analysis of the evolution of historical scholarship on 'the Second Indochina War'.