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Social Theory and Social Structure
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MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS OF CHILD SEX ABUSE: An Argument for a Layered Account
TL;DR: Using systematic sociological introspection, the authors present a retrospective participant observation of the experience of being sexually abused as a child, and an argument for a new writing format, the layered account.
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The new sociology of knowledge
Ann Swidler,Jorge Arditi +1 more
TL;DR: The new sociology of knowledge examines how kinds of social organization make whole orderings of knowledge possible, rather than focussing on the differing social locations and interests of individuals or groups as discussed by the authors.
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When Cashiers Meet Customers: An Analysis of the Role of Supermarket Cashiers
TL;DR: In a qualitative investigation of the role of supermarket cashiers, the influence of management, co-workers, and customers over cashiers was analyzed by as mentioned in this paper, who found that customers had immediate influence over cashier behavior.
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Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure
TL;DR: L Lichbach and Zuckerman as mentioned in this paper discussed the role of rational choice in comparative and historical analysis of comparative political analysis, and made causal claims about the effect of 'ethnicity' on comparative analysis.
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Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences: ALIGNING ONTOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Abstract: Some of the liveliest debates about methodology in the social sciences center on comparative research. This essay concentrates on comparative politics, a field often defined by reference to the use of a particular “comparative method,” but it also bears on sociology, where there is active controversy about methodological issues. I use the term “methodology” to refer to the means scholars employ to increase confidence that the inferences they make about the social and political world are valid. The most important of these are inferences about causal relationships, where the object of a methodology is to increase confidence in assertions that one variable or event ( x ) exerts a causal effect on another ( y ). One of the curious features of contemporary debates is that they pay more attention to methodology than to issues of ontology. “Ontology” refers to the character of the world as it actually is. Accordingly, I use the term to refer to the fundamental assumptions scholars make about the nature of the social and political world and especially about the nature of causal relationships within that world. If a methodology consists of techniques for making observations about causal relations, an ontology consists of premises about the deep causal structures of the world from which analysis begins and without which theories about the social world would not make sense. At a fundamental level, it is how we imagine the social world to be.