Actions and Structure: Research Methods and Social Theory / Edition 1

Actions and Structure: Research Methods and Social Theory / Edition 1

by Nigel G. Fielding
ISBN-10:
0803981473
ISBN-13:
9780803981478
Pub. Date:
10/01/1988
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
ISBN-10:
0803981473
ISBN-13:
9780803981478
Pub. Date:
10/01/1988
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Actions and Structure: Research Methods and Social Theory / Edition 1

Actions and Structure: Research Methods and Social Theory / Edition 1

by Nigel G. Fielding

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Overview

Social scientists have always recognised a divergence between approaches which emphasise the constraining power of social structure and those which interpret society through the cumulative effects of actions of individuals. In recent years there has been renewed interest in the latter through the micro-sociology of everyday life. Social scientists are now taking stock of the implications of micro-sociological research for the analysis of structure and the macro-level theory of society. In Actions and Structure the value of micro-sociological research for the analysis of social order is assessed. Individual chapters evaluate new research approaches from discourse and conversational analysis, mathematical, interactionist and phenomenol


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780803981478
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 10/01/1988
Pages: 212
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

"My research interests are in criminology, socio-legal studies, social research methodology, and new technologies for social research. In criminology I have particular expertise in policing, having conducted studies of police training, police occupational culture, community and neighbourhood policing, equal opportunities in the police service, police corruption, and comparative research on international police systems. In socio-legal studies I have particular interests in the criminal courts and the experiences of lay people during the criminal trial process. My study of lay participants' experience of trials of cases of physical violence won the Socio-Legal Studies Association Hart Prize 2007 for the Best Socio-Legal Book.

In social research methodology my primary expertise is in qualitative methods, particularly the practice and ethics of participant observation, the status of interview data, and software for the analysis of qualitative data, in which latter I co-direct the UK national centre for qualitative software. I also have substantial expertise in multiple-method research and methodological 'triangulation', secondary analysis of archival qualitative data, online research methods, and the application of grid and high performance computing to social research, where I have a particular interest in the use of Access Grid technology for 'virtual fieldwork'. My paper on the latter was shortlisted for the Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence 2007.

My research has been sponsored by, inter alia, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Fulbright Commission, the US Department of Defense, the Home Office, the UK Police Foundation, the US Police Foundation, Surrey Police Authority, Surrey Police, the Metropolitan Police, the Swiss Information and Documentation Service, the Deutsche Zentral Archiv, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Thales plc, Electricite de France, Volkswagen Stiftung, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft"

Table of Contents

Between Micro and Macro - Nigel Fielding
The Micro-Social Order - Karin Knorr-Cetina
Autonomy Among Social Theories - Wes Sharrock and Rod Watson
Semiotics and Social Theory - Peter K Manning
Micro-Sociology and Power - Paul Rock
Micro-Sociology and Micro-Economics - Colin Clark and Trevor Pinch
Micro-Sociology and the 'Duality of Structure' - John Brewer
Individual and Social Connections - John Scott and Peter Cowley
The 'Structuration' of Action - Peter Abell
Micro-Sociology and Macro Theory - Nigel Fielding

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