By Richard Swedberg
Richard Swedberg (ed.)
All social scientists study the prestigious theories and frameworks in their predecessors, utilizing them to notify their very own examine and observations. yet prior to there will be thought, there has to be theorizing. Theorizing in Social Science introduces the reader to the following iteration of conception building and indicates worthy methods for growing social theory.
What makes particular types of theories artistic, and the way does one pass approximately theorizing in an inventive method? The participants to this landmark collection—top social scientists within the fields of sociology, economics, and management—draw on own stories and new findings to supply more than a few solutions to those questions. a few flip to cognitive psychology and neuroscience's influence on our realizing of human notion, others inspire higher discussion among and around the arts and sciences, whereas nonetheless others specialise in the tactics wherein statement results in conceptualization. Taken jointly, although, the chapters jointly and actively motivate a shift within the position of conception in social technology this day. attractive to scholars and scientists throughout disciplines, this assortment will motivate leading edge techniques to generating, educating, and studying theory.
Reviews:
"The debate approximately technique within the social sciences has virtually thoroughly bypassed dialogue of the instruments that we will use to construct strong theories. This ebook is large leap forward in correcting this omission. If we're fortunate, it's going to stimulate a brand new department of technique dedicated to the methods that analysts can such a lot productively use within the context of discovery."—James Mahoney, Northwestern University
Contents:
1 From concept to Theorizing
Richard Swedberg
2 Intuitionist Theorizing
Karin Knorr Cetina
3 Analogy, circumstances, and Comparative Social Organization
Diane Vaughan
4 The Unsettlement of groups of Inquiry
Isaac Ariail Reed and Mayer N. Zald
5 3 Frank inquiries to self-discipline Your Theorizing
Daniel B. Klein
6 Mundane Theorizing, Bricolage, and Bildung
Stephen Turner
7 The Counterfactual mind's eye
Roland Paulsen
8 The paintings of Theorizing
Karl E. Weick
9 Susan Sontag and Heteroscedasticity
James G. March
Afterword
Neil Gross
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Haidt attributes the following features to the first system, which he calls intuitive: it is fast and effortless, the process is unintentional, it runs automatically and demands no attentional resources; it is inaccessible— what enters awareness are only results; the process is parallel and distributed; pattern matching occurs, and thought is metaphorical and holistic; it is context dependent and platform dependent (it depends on the organism in which it occurs); and it is not unique to humans but common to all mammals.
They can be supplemented by saying more about the cognitive and other processes that theorizing involves. What, then, is intuitionist theorizing? And what is it not? Why separate it from method, and, worse yet, even shift it away from reason, as I propose to do? In the first section of this chapter, I begin with what the intuitionism I propose is not, but is likely to be confused with. I then define intuitionist theorizing in a positive if somewhat technical way, by linking it to particular processing circuits in the brain that I explain and illustrate.
One reason for this has to do with the important role that learning by doing plays in executing a craft. The type of knowledge that one needs to craft as well as to theorize, is practical knowledge. Another important point is that tacit knowledge is crucial in crafting. It is well understood that the hand of the craftsman knows more than his or her mind; and being aware of this is essential for the craftsman to do a good job. But even if the expression “the craft of theorizing” is appealing, one should be warned against the idea that theorizing can be reduced to a set of explicit rules, especially cognitive rules that should always be followed.