What are the alternative ways to construct research objects in sociology? This book gives you a variety of examples of what to do, how to think, in order to develop and use theoretical driven methodology in the social sciences.

Preface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction   Håkon Leiulfsrud and Peter Sohlberg 2 How Do You Establish the Research Object in Sociology?   Richard Swedberg 3 Historical Epistemology, Sociology, and Statistics   Johs Hjellbrekke 4 Constructing Social Structure   John Scott 5 Constructing the Conceptual Tools for the Global South   David Fasenfest and Raju J. Das 6 The Significance of Social Bonds   Göran Ahrne 7 Organisations as a Sociological Research Object  How Schools Reproduce Inequality   Raimund Hasse 8 Broken Promises and Lost Qualities  Constructing Management as a Research Object in Sociology and Anthropology   Emil André Røyrvik 9 On Thought Experiments in Sociology and the Power of Thinking   Michela Betta and Richard Swedberg 10 Constructing and Researching the Object in Time and Space   Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen 11 Academic Star Wars  Pierre Bourdieu and Dorothy E. Smith on Academic Work   Karin Widerberg 12 Living Theory  Reflections on Four Decades of Teaching Social Theory   Michael Burawoy 13 Postscript   Peter Sohlberg and Håkon Leiulfsrud Index