The SAGE Handbook of Social Science Methodology

Stephen Turner is Graduate Research Professor. His Ph.D. is from the University of Missouri. His dissertation, Sociological Explanation as Translation , was published in 1980 by Cambridge . He is the author of a number of books in the history and philosophy of social science and statistics, including books on Max Weber, on whom he also edited the Cambridge Companion volume. He is the co-author of the standard one-volume history of American Sociology, The Impossible Science. He has also written extensively in science studies, especially on patronage and the politics and economics of science, and on the concept of practices, including two books, The Social Theory of Practices and Brains//Practices/ Relativism . His Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts, reflects his interest in the problem the political significance of science. Among his other current interests are problems of explaining normativity, especially the conflict between philosophical and social scientific accounts, and issues relating to the implications of cognitive neuroscience for social theory, especially related to the problem of tacit knowledge and mirror neurons. He is also engaged in a large project on the realism of Hans Kelsen and Max Weber and its relevance for contemporary discussions of political theory and law. His most recent book, Explaining the Normative (Polity 2010) is a critique and an alternative to the accounts of “normativity” one finds in philosophers like McDowell, Brandom, Korsgaard, Nagel, and the like. Among his other recent edited books are The SAGE Handbook of Social Science Methodology, with William Outhwaite, and The Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory, with Gerard Delanty. He has had fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

"This timely collection maps developments and explores new territories to meet the challenges and bring about possibilities for social science inquiries."

• PART ONE: OVERVIEWSIntroduction - William OuthwaiteThe Social Sciences since World War II - Peter ManicasThe Rise and Fall of ScientismInterdisciplinary Approaches in Social Science Research - Julie Thompson KleinPART TWO: CASES, COMPARISONS AND THEORYIntroduction - William OuthwaiteEthnography - Jon MitchellComparative Methods - Charles C RaginHistoricity and Sociohistorical Research - John R HallCase Study - Jennifer PlattPART THREE: QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIMENTIntroduction - Stephen TurnerStatistical Models for Causation - David FreedmanFighting to Understand the World Causally - Leslie Hayduk and Hannah Pazderka-RobinsonThree Battles Connected to the Causal Implications of Structural Equation ModelsExperimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs in Behavioral Research - Sandra SchneiderOn Context, Crud and ConvergenceTheory and Experimentation in Social Sciences - Murray Webster Jr and Jane SellThe Treatment of Missing Data - David HowellModeling Selection Effects - Thad Dunning and David FreedmanMethods for Census 2000 and Statistical Adjustments - David Freedman and Ken WachterQuantitative History - Margo AndersonPART FOUR: RATIONALITY, COMPLEXITY, COLLECTIVITYIntroduction - William OuthwaiteRational Choice Theory - Donald P Green and Justin FoxRationality and Rationalist Approaches in the Social Sciences - David HendersonIndividual and Collective Agency - Thomas SchwinnSimulating Complexity - R Keith SawyerEvolutionary Approaches in the Social Sciences - Maureen O′MalleyPART FIVE: INTERPRETATION, CRITIQUE AND POSTMODERNITYIntroduction - William OuthwaiteUnderstanding and Interpretation - Hans-Herbert KöglerNew Controversies in Phenomenology - Mark J Smith and Piya PangsapaBetween Ethnography and DiscourseLiberal Humanism and the European Critical Tradition - Doug Kellner and Tyson LewisGrounded Theory - Adele ClarkeCritiques, Debates and Situational AnalysisDoes Postmodernism Make You Mad? Or, Did You Flunk Statistics? - Ben AggerPART SIX: DISCOURSE CONSTRUCTIONIntroduction - Stephen TurnerSocial Construction and Research Methodology - Ken Gergen and Mary GergenRhetorics of Social Science - Ricca EdmondsonSociality in Writing and InquiryDiscourse Analysis - Michael LynchPART SEVEN: EVALUATION, ENGAGEMENT, AND COLLABRATIVE RESEARCHIntroduction - Stephen TurnerEvaluation Research - Michael ScrivenFeminist Methodology - Susan HekmanFeminist Methodology and Its Discontents - Nancy NaplesCommunity Based Research - Michael RootQualitative Methodology (Including Focus Groups) - Norman Denzin and Kathryn E RyanMaking a Mess with Method - John Law