Forms of life: the method and meaning of sociology
"Harry Collins is a highly respected and well-known sociologist of science and one of the leaders in the founding of that field. In a project that befits his stature in science studies and in the broader field of sociology, he has turned to a more general reflection on how he did what he has do...
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| Summary: | "Harry Collins is a highly respected and well-known sociologist of science and one of the leaders in the founding of that field. In a project that befits his stature in science studies and in the broader field of sociology, he has turned to a more general reflection on how he did what he has done, and to drawing lessons from his own experiences over many years...lessons about how to do the kind of thing he has so successfully done himself. In particular, he has thought intensively about methods, about the way he did the work that he is justly renowned for, and especially about the methodological issues that have stirred up so much passionate discussion in sociology. In this book he uses the materials he has produced over so many years of research to draw some basic lessons about how to go about studying collective activities, and especially about what bases our belief that we are learning something useful when we gather whatever kind of data we gather. The goal then here is to provide a comprehensive, critical, and reflexive introduction to interpretative qualitative social science methodology, based on an entire career's worth of professional experience, and told in a similarly accessible style to Collins's other books"... |
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| adam_text | Contents 1 Introduction 2 Participant Comprehension 1 29 3 Feeling Your Way in Interview-Based Fieldwork 4 The Road to Interactional Expertise 41 57 5 Comprehension, Relativism, Alternation, and Lies 6 More on the Nature of Sociology 65 79 7 The Stranger, Estrangement, and Estrangement Techniques 8 Bringing the Stoiy Back Home 9 Tangible versus Inferential Experiments and Probes versus Surveys 89 99 109 10 Against Tribalism: Alternation and More 11 Saving the Science of Sociology 133 143 Appendix 1 : Code of Practice for Interviews (circa 1997) 151 Appendix 2: Works by the Author Making Substantive Contributions to the Chapters 153 Bonus Extra: When Interviews Don t Go According to Plan—A Quiz Acknowledgments Notes 163 References Index 181 173 161 157
In Forms of Life, Harry Collins offers an introduction to social science methodology, draw ing on his forty-plus years of conducting high-profile sociological research. In this concise, accessible, and engaging book, Collins explains not only how to do sociology (the method) but also how to think about sociology (the meaning). For example, he describes the three activities that are the foundations of sociological method (immersing oneself in a society: estranging oneself from that society; and explaining what has been discovered to those who have not been immersed) and goes on to consider broader questions of the meaning of science in relation to social science and the scientific authority of subjective methods. He explains that sociology is the study of social collectivities (often overlapping, subdividable. and embedded), and cites Wittgenstein’s notion of forms of life in his definition of collectivity. Collins covers such methodological topics as participant comprehension; interviewbased fieldwork ( ‘expect plans to fail ); interactional expertise; alternation and methodolog ical relativism; tangible and inferential experiments; tribalism and emotional loyalty; and how to communicate your findings. Finally, he offers recommendations for saving the science of sociology,” considering, among other things, sociology s identity as a discipline and the perils of both “groupism” and being too afraid of it. Appendixes offer a code of conduct for interviews; a list of his relevant publications; and an account, in Q A form, of a disastrous day in the life of a sociologist
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