For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a "processual" ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of…
"For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing—making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of …
For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a "processual" ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of…
For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing-making, remaking and unmaking itself, instant by instant. In 'Processual Sociology', Abbott f…
For the past twenty years, the noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing-making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units …
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface: Basic stuff - meta-theory for the social sciences -- Returning to meta-theory -- Is there a crisis in the social sciences? -- A crisis of the Left? -- Resisting meta-theory -- Bad meta-theory is…
1. Humanism and its critics -- 2. Knowledge in the social sciences -- 3. Debates about epsitemology in recent social science -- 4. Explanation in the social sciences -- 5. What do social scientists do in their accounts? -- 6. Values, ethics and the social sciences -- 7. Two exam…