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Usable Theory : Analytic Tools for Social and Political Research / Dietrich Rueschemeyer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691129594
  • 9781400830671
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.072 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- CHAPTER I. Analytic Tools for Social and Political Research -- CHAPTER II. A General Frame: Social Action -- CHAPTER III. Knowledge -- CHAPTER IV. Norms -- CHAPTER V. Preferences -- CHAPTER VI. Emotions -- CHAPTER VII. "The Human Group" Revisited -- CHAPTER VIII. Midpoint -- CHAPTER IX. Aggregations -- CHAPTER X. Collective Action -- CHAPTER XI. Power and Cooperation -- CHAPTER XII. Institutions -- CHAPTER XIII. Social Identities -- CHAPTER XIV. Macrocontexts -- CHAPTER XV. Cultural Explanations -- CHAPTER XVI. Conclusion: Usable Theory? -- References -- Index
Summary: The project of twentieth-century sociology and political science--to create predictive scientific theory--resulted in few full-scale theories that can be taken off the shelf and successfully applied to empirical puzzles. Yet focused "theory frames" that formulate problems and point to relevant causal factors and conditions have produced vibrant, insightful, and analytically oriented empirical research. While theory frames alone cannot offer explanation or prediction, they guide empirical theory formation and give direction to inferences from empirical evidence. They are also responsible for much of the progress in the social sciences. In Usable Theory, distinguished sociologist Dietrich Rueschemeyer shows graduate students and researchers how to construct theory frames and use them to develop valid empirical hypotheses in the course of empirical social and political research. Combining new ideas as well as analytic tools derived from classic and recent theoretical traditions, the book enlarges the rationalist model of action by focusing on knowledge, norms, preferences, and emotions, and it discusses larger social formations that shape elementary forms of action. Throughout, Usable Theory seeks to mobilize the implicit theoretical social knowledge used in everyday life. Offers tools for theory building in social and political research Complements the rationalist model of action with discussions of knowledge, norms, preferences, and emotions Relates theoretical ideas to problems of methodology Situates elementary forms of action in relation to larger formations Combines new ideas with themes from classic and more recent theories
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- CHAPTER I. Analytic Tools for Social and Political Research -- CHAPTER II. A General Frame: Social Action -- CHAPTER III. Knowledge -- CHAPTER IV. Norms -- CHAPTER V. Preferences -- CHAPTER VI. Emotions -- CHAPTER VII. "The Human Group" Revisited -- CHAPTER VIII. Midpoint -- CHAPTER IX. Aggregations -- CHAPTER X. Collective Action -- CHAPTER XI. Power and Cooperation -- CHAPTER XII. Institutions -- CHAPTER XIII. Social Identities -- CHAPTER XIV. Macrocontexts -- CHAPTER XV. Cultural Explanations -- CHAPTER XVI. Conclusion: Usable Theory? -- References -- Index

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The project of twentieth-century sociology and political science--to create predictive scientific theory--resulted in few full-scale theories that can be taken off the shelf and successfully applied to empirical puzzles. Yet focused "theory frames" that formulate problems and point to relevant causal factors and conditions have produced vibrant, insightful, and analytically oriented empirical research. While theory frames alone cannot offer explanation or prediction, they guide empirical theory formation and give direction to inferences from empirical evidence. They are also responsible for much of the progress in the social sciences. In Usable Theory, distinguished sociologist Dietrich Rueschemeyer shows graduate students and researchers how to construct theory frames and use them to develop valid empirical hypotheses in the course of empirical social and political research. Combining new ideas as well as analytic tools derived from classic and recent theoretical traditions, the book enlarges the rationalist model of action by focusing on knowledge, norms, preferences, and emotions, and it discusses larger social formations that shape elementary forms of action. Throughout, Usable Theory seeks to mobilize the implicit theoretical social knowledge used in everyday life. Offers tools for theory building in social and political research Complements the rationalist model of action with discussions of knowledge, norms, preferences, and emotions Relates theoretical ideas to problems of methodology Situates elementary forms of action in relation to larger formations Combines new ideas with themes from classic and more recent theories

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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