{"product_id":"eviatar-zerubavel-generally-speaking-9780197519288","title":"Generally Speaking","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, Generally Speaking 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.","brand":"OXFORD UNIV PR","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53768641020246,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/eviatar-zerubavel-generally-speaking-9780197519288","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}