The Craft of Sociology: Epistemological Preliminaries - Softcover

Chamboredon, Jean-Claude

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3110119404 ISBN 13: 9783110119404

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, 1991

Synopsis

The work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has emerged, over the last two decades, as one of the most substantial and innovative bodies of theory and research in contemporary social science. The Craft of Sociology, both a textbook and an original contribution to epistemology in social science, focuses on a basic problem of sociological research: the necessity of an epistemological break with the preconstructed objects social practice offers to the researcher. Pierre Bourdieu and his co-authors argue in the epistemological tradition of scholars like Bachelard, Canguilhem, Koyre, a tradition that identifies the construction of the object as being the fundamental scientific act. Their way of discussing the issue makes it accessible not only to academics and experts of epistemology, but also to advanced students of social science, using for illustration a wide range of texts from the various social sciences as well as from philosophy of science. The book includes an interview with Pierre Bourdieu and an introduction by the editor to his sociological methodology.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

About this edition

• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 3110119404
• ISBN 13: 9783110119404
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 287