{"product_id":"generally-speaking-eviatar-zerubavel-9780197519288","title":"Generally Speaking: An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology","description":"In this invitation to \"concept-driven\" sociology, defying the conventional split between \"theory\" and \"methodology\" (as well as between \"quantitative\" and \"qualitative\" research), Eviatar Zerubavel introduces a yet unarticulated \"Simmelian\" method of theorizing specifically designed to reveal fundamental, often hidden social patterns. Insisting that it can actually be taught, he examines the theoretico-methodological process (revolving around the epistemic and analytical acts of focusing, generalizing, \"exampling,\" and analogizing) by which concept-driven researchers can distill generic social patterns from the culturally, historically, and domain-specific contexts in which they encounter them empirically. Disregarding conventionally noted substantive variability in order to uncover conventionally disregarded formal commonalities, \u003cem\u003eGenerally Speaking\u003c\/em\u003e draws on cross-cultural, cross-historical, cross-domain, and cross-level analogies in an effort to reveal formal parallels across disparate contexts. Using numerous examples from culturally and historically diverse contexts and a wide range of social domains while also disregarding scale, Zerubavel thus introduces a pronouncedly transcontextual \"generic\" sociology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eviatar Zerubavel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197519288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197519288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/27\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2022","brand":"Eviatar Zerubavel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993438421247,"sku":"9780197519288","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_abb5ed6a-da2d-45d3-b934-470247862ba1.jpg?v=1683324344","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/generally-speaking-eviatar-zerubavel-9780197519288","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}