A Measure for Measures: A Manifesto for Empirical Sociology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415026598)

First Published in 2004. This challenging and pioneering work aims to provide a measure (a set of standards) for measures (empirical data) in sociological research. It argues that the critique of positivism has resulted in a methodological impasse. Criticism has pulled the rug from under positivist method but left nothing in its place. In a devastating and systematic critique the author rejects phenomenological and relativist objections to sociological measurement. A wholly new model for the empirical substantiation of sociological theory is developed based on an examination of scientific measurement techniques and a reading of realist philosophical principles. Unlike many books heralding a new direction in sociology, A MEASURE FOR MEASURES goes beyond meta-theory, providing detailed examples to show how the 'new realism' can provide a viable empirical method.

Author: R. Pawson
ISBN-10: 0415026598
ISBN-13: 9780415026598
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1989
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.40w x 0.85d