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- catalog abstract ""What do variables really tell us? When exactly do inventions occur? Why do we always miss turning points as they transpire? When does what doesn't happen mean as much, if not more, than what does? Andrew Abbott considers these fascinating questions in Time Matters, a diverse series of essays that constitutes the most extensive analysis of temporality in social science today. Ranging from abstract theoretical reflection to pointed methodological critique, Abbott demonstrates the inevitably theoretical character of any methodology. Time Matters focuses particularly on questions of time, events, and causality. Abbott grounds each essay in straightforward examinations of actual social scientific analyses. Throughout, he demonstrates the crucial assumptions we make about causes and events, about actors and interaction and about time and meaning every time we employ methods of social analysis, whether in academic disciplines, market research, public opinion polling, or even evaluation research. Turning current assumptions on their heads, Abbott not only outlines the theoretical orthodoxies of empirical social science, he sketches new alternatives, laying down foundations for a new body of social theory." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi051/00012680.html.".
- catalog contributor b12155597.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""What do variables really tell us? When exactly do inventions occur? Why do we always miss turning points as they transpire? When does what doesn't happen mean as much, if not more, than what does? Andrew Abbott considers these fascinating questions in Time Matters, a diverse series of essays that constitutes the most extensive analysis of temporality in social science today. Ranging from abstract theoretical reflection to pointed methodological critique, Abbott demonstrates the inevitably theoretical character of any methodology. Time Matters focuses particularly on questions of time, events, and causality. Abbott grounds each essay in straightforward examinations of actual social scientific analyses. Throughout, he demonstrates the crucial assumptions we make about causes and events, about actors and interaction and about time and meaning every time we employ methods of social analysis, whether in academic disciplines, market research, public opinion polling, or even evaluation research. Turning current assumptions on their heads, Abbott not only outlines the theoretical orthodoxies of empirical social science, he sketches new alternatives, laying down foundations for a new body of social theory." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi051/00012680.html.".
- catalog description "Acknowledgments --Prologue An Autobiographical Introduction --Part One Methods and Assumptions --1 Transcending General Linear Reality --2 Seven Types of Ambiguity --3 The Causal Devolution --Part Two Time and Method --4 What Do Cases Do? --5 Conceptions of Time and Events in Social Science Methods --6 From Causes to Events --Part Three Time and Social Structure --7 Temporality and Process in Social Life --8 On the Concept of Turning Point --9 Things of Boundaries --Epilogue Time Matters --References --Index.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-312) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 318 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226001024 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0226001032 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "301/.01 21".
- catalog subject "HM511 .A33 2001".
- catalog subject "Sociology Methodology.".
- catalog subject "Sociology Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Time Sociological aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Acknowledgments --Prologue An Autobiographical Introduction --Part One Methods and Assumptions --1 Transcending General Linear Reality --2 Seven Types of Ambiguity --3 The Causal Devolution --Part Two Time and Method --4 What Do Cases Do? --5 Conceptions of Time and Events in Social Science Methods --6 From Causes to Events --Part Three Time and Social Structure --7 Temporality and Process in Social Life --8 On the Concept of Turning Point --9 Things of Boundaries --Epilogue Time Matters --References --Index.".
- catalog title "Time matters : on theory and method / Andrew Abbott.".
- catalog type "text".