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Robin Stryker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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beyond history versus theory strategic narrative and Sociological Explanation
Sociological Methods & Research, 1996Co-Authors: Robin StrykerAbstract:Strategic narrative is a useful frame for the history-theory relationship in qualitative, historical research. It suggests that some stories and ways of constructing stories will promote theory building more than will others, enabling historical sociologists to help cumulate knowledge more effectively. Four aspects of strategic narrative are discussed and illustrated: (a) concurrent construction and mutual adjustment of history and theory, with each defined and built with reference to the other; (b) selection and construction of history in response to a clearly developed abstract, general theoretical backdrop, with attention to how that backdrop conditions building of history; (c) construction of a theoretical and historical anomaly as the starting point for a phased-in comparative research design, with each phase building narratives and comparisons around key events to answer specific theoretical questions, and all phases cumulating to respond to the full range of general theoretical issues motivating the design; and (d) formulation of clear, precise concepts, measures, and coding techniques to build history as both path-dependent action sequence and complex institutional and cultural context/conjuncture.
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beyond history versus theory strategic narrative and Sociological Explanation
Sociological Methods & Research, 1996Co-Authors: Robin StrykerAbstract:Strategic narrative is a useful frame for the history-theory relationship in qualitative, historical research. It suggests that some stories and ways of constructing stories will promote theory building more than will others, enabling historical sociologists to help cumulate knowledge more effectively. Four aspects of strategic narrative are discussed and illustrated: (a) concurrent construction and mutual adjustment of history and theory, with each defined and built with reference to the other; (b) selection and construction of history in response to a clearly developed abstract, general theoretical backdrop, with attention to how that backdrop conditions building of history; (c) construction of a theoretical and historical anomaly as the starting point for a phased-in comparative research design, with each phase building narratives and comparisons around key events to answer specific theoretical questions, and all phases cumulating to respond to the full range of general theoretical issues motivating th...
Peter Abell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a case for cases comparative narratives in Sociological Explanation
Sociological Methods & Research, 2009Co-Authors: Peter AbellAbstract:When case studies are constructed as narratives, then causal Explanation can be achieved without either comparison or generalization. Narratives provide paths of causal links on a chronology of actions or events. The links, in turn, can be studied as Bayesian inferences generating Bayesian narratives. The causal paths in a narrative have a Boolean structure.
Philip S Gorski - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the poverty of deductivism a constructive realist model of Sociological Explanation
Sociological Methodology, 2004Co-Authors: Philip S GorskiAbstract:Despite the lip service which many sociologists pay to Popper's hypothetico-deductive model (HDM) of theory testing, few if any major social theories have been definitively falsified. The reason is...
Will Felps - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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why do iq scores predict job performance an alternative Sociological Explanation
ERIM Article Series (EAS), 2010Co-Authors: Eliza Byington, Will FelpsAbstract:textabstractABSTRACT During the past century, IQ testing has become a pervasive tool for allocating scarce resources in the United States and beyond. IQ-reflective tests are used in primary and secondary schools to sort students into groups, and by universities and employers to select between applicants. Drawing on several Sociological literatures (i.e. the diffusion of institutions, social stratification, and self- fulfilling dynamics), we argue that the current applications of IQ-reflective tests allow individuals with high IQ scores to receive greater access to developmental resources, enabling them to acquire additional capabilities over time, and ultimately perform their jobs better. This institutional Explanation for the IQ–job performance link is an alternative to the prevailing assertion that IQ facilitates job performance through on-the-job learning. Further, this Explanation suggests that the frequently repeated prescription ‘‘select on intelligence’’ may be institutionally contingent.
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why do iq scores predict job performance an alternative Sociological Explanation
Research in Organizational Behavior, 2010Co-Authors: Eliza Byington, Will FelpsAbstract:Abstract During the past century, IQ testing has become a pervasive tool for allocating scarce resources in the United States and beyond. IQ-reflective tests are used in primary and secondary schools to sort students into groups, and by universities and employers to select between applicants. Drawing on several Sociological literatures (i.e. the diffusion of institutions, social stratification, and self-fulfilling dynamics), we argue that the current applications of IQ-reflective tests allow individuals with high IQ scores to receive greater access to developmental resources, enabling them to acquire additional capabilities over time, and ultimately perform their jobs better. This institutional Explanation for the IQ–job performance link is an alternative to the prevailing assertion that IQ facilitates job performance through on-the-job learning. Further, this Explanation suggests that the frequently repeated prescription “select on intelligence” may be institutionally contingent.
Hendrik Van Den Berg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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complexity and the culture of economics a Sociological and inter disciplinary analysis
Journal of Philosophical Economics, 2012Co-Authors: Hendrik Van Den BergAbstract:This paper offers a Sociological Explanation for why the field of economics has so severely restricted the scope of its analysis to the point where it failed to foresee the financial crises, economic recessions, and other large shifts in economic activity that have characterized the global economy in recent decades. This paper’s analysis of the culture of economics draws heavily on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist who developed a useful framework with which to analyze the culture of an intellectual field like economics. Specifically, the paper describes how the neo-liberal doxa supports the restrictive neoclassical (marginalist) modeling approach that is a central element of the habitus of mainstream economics. Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence shows how the orthodox economics culture perpetuates itself even in the face of the complete failure of the culture’s favored neoclassical and rational expectations models to anticipate recent macroeconomic crises. The paper concludes with some thoughts on how this understanding of the culture of economics can enable economists to free themselves from the oppressive culture of mainstream economics.