Constructing Social Research Objects

Håkon Leiulfsrud, Ph.D. (1991), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), is Professor in Sociology at NTNU. He has published his work in the field of sociology with a special interest in social inequality, class and social stratification, labour market and welfare state issues. He has been teaching sociological theory, courses in social inequality and welfare state, and research methods in Trondheim since the mid 1990s.Peter Sohlberg, Ph.D. (1997), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), is Professor in Philosophy of Social Science and Sociology at NTNU. He has published his work in the fields of philosophy of science, sociology and social psychology. He has been teaching social theory and philosophy of social science since the early 1990´s in Uppsala, Stockholm and Trondheim. His most recent book is Functionalist construction work in social science. The lost heritage (Routledge, 2021).

• PrefaceList of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionHåkon Leiulfsrud and Peter Sohlberg2 How Do You Establish the Research Object in Sociology?Richard Swedberg3 Historical Epistemology, Sociology, and StatisticsJohs Hjellbrekke4 Constructing Social StructureJohn Scott5 Constructing the Conceptual Tools for the Global SouthDavid Fasenfest and Raju J. Das6 The Significance of Social BondsGöran Ahrne7 Organisations as a Sociological Research ObjectHow Schools Reproduce InequalityRaimund Hasse8 Broken Promises and Lost QualitiesConstructing Management as a Research Object in Sociology and AnthropologyEmil André Røyrvik9 On Thought Experiments in Sociology and the Power of ThinkingMichela Betta and Richard Swedberg10 Constructing and Researching the Object in Time and SpaceHarriet Bjerrum Nielsen11 Academic Star WarsPierre Bourdieu and Dorothy E. Smith on Academic WorkKarin Widerberg12 Living TheoryReflections on Four Decades of Teaching Social TheoryMichael Burawoy13 PostscriptPeter Sohlberg and Håkon LeiulfsrudIndex