Mohamed Cherkaoui

The European tradition in qualitative research

Provisional Contents VOLUME ONE PART ONE: COLLECTING DATA SECTION ONE: USING AVAILABLE DATA An Analysis of the Verbal Content of Suicide Notes - Louis A Gottschalk and Goldine C Gleser Intellectualism, Intellectuals and the History of Religion - Max Weber The Church and the Social Classes - Bernard Groethuysen Benjamin Franklin - Kurt Samuelsson How the Spirit of Revolt Was Promoted by Well-Intentioned Efforts to Improve the Peoples Lot - Alexis de Tocqueville The Sorrows of Young Werther - Georg Luk[ac]acs Problems in the Histography of Science - Alexandre Koyr[ac]e Can There Be an Alternative Mathematics? - David Bloor Joy, High Spirits, Love, Tender Feelings, Devotion - Charles Darwin The Handle - Georg Simmel Designs as Signs - Ernst Hans Gombrich Recent History - Quentin Bell Understanding Errors in Perspective - Dominique Raynaud Friedrich, or, The Other Fatherland - A Besan[ce]con Structural Analysis - Siegfried Kracauer SECTION TWO: COLLECTING NEW DATA The Interview Technique in Social Anthropology - S F Nadel Sur lutilisation de lentretien non directif en sociologie - Guy Michelat La Formulation des questions denqu[ci]ete - Jean-Paul Gr[ac]emy Une r[ac]esponse m[ac]ediane et sans avis How to Explain Common Feelings of Justice - Emmanuelle Betton-Gossart What Method of Empirical Analysis Shall We Choose? Affluence and the British Class Structure - John H Goldthorpe and David Lockwood The Principles of Selection of Cultural Data - Florian Znaniecki Life Stories in the Bakers Trade - Daniel Bertaux and Isabelle Bertaux-Wiame The Observers Observed - Jean Peneff French Survey Researchers at Work Research Concerning Prisons - Bruno Milly Return to the Methodological Difficulties of Field Studies in this Area VOLUME TWO PART TWO: SELECTING A TYPE OF APPROACH SECTION ONE: CASE STUDIES On Family, Work and Social Change - Fr[ac]ed[ac]eric le Play Neighbourhood Relations in the Making - Norbert Elias When Describing is Explaining - Henri Bergeron Qualitative Methods in the Study of French Drug Addiction Treatment Policy The Gains of Irrationality - Jean-Pierre Lavaud SECTION TWO: QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SMALL SOCIAL UNITS The Political System - E E Evans-Pritchard The Social System at the Shop Level - Michel Crozier The Plant Subculture and the Formal Authority System SECTION THREE: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS How Towards the Middle of the Eighteenth Century Men of Letters Took the Lead in Politics and the Consequences of this New Development - Alexis de Tocqueville Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation - Karl Marx Introduction to the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective - Alexander Gerschenkron The Kemalist Revolution in Comparative Perspective - S N Eisenstadt PART THREE: BUILDING CONCEPTS SECTION ONE: DESCRIPTION AND CONCEPTUALISATION Preface to the First Edition of Histories of the Latin and Germanic Nations from 1494-1514 - Leopold von Ranke La Pri[gr]ere - Marcel Mauss Danses et l[ac]egendes de la Chine ancienne - Marcel Granet Conceptualization and Narration - W G Runciman The Contours of High Modernity - Anthony Giddens A Typology of Nationalisms - Ernst Gellner SECTION TWO: CLASSIFYING AND BUILDING TYPOLOGIES The Multidimensional Space of Classes - Karl Marx How to Determine Social Causes and Social Types - [ac]Emile Durkheim Three Types of Christian Thought - Ernst Troeltsch General Statement of the Main Concepts - Ferdinand T[um]onnies Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy - Max Weber Political Systems of Highland Burma - Edward Leach Polythetic Classification - Rodney Needham Ideal Types and Historical Explanation - J W N Watkins Some Functions of Qualitative Analysis in Social Research - A H Barton and P F Lazarsfeld Four Whole Persons - Mary Douglas and Steven Ney Formal and Empirical Pragmatics - J[um]urgen Habermas VOLUME THREE PART THREE: BUILDING CONCEPTS (CONTINUED) SECTION THREE: CONTENT ANALYSIS The Structure of Foreign News - Johan Galtung and Mari Holmboe Ruge The Presentation of the Congo, Cuba and Cyprus Crises in Four Norwegian Newspapers Social Class, Linguistic Codes and Grammatical Elements - Basil B Bernstein PART FOUR: BUILDING THEORIES SECTION ONE: STYLES OF THEORY Caract[gr]eres fondamentaux de la m[ac]ethode positive dans l[ac]etude rationnelle des ph[ac]enom[gr]enes sociaux - Auguste Comte The Scientific Approach - Vilfredo Pareto Introduction to On Sociology, Numbers, Narratives and the Integration of Research and Theory - John H Goldthorpe The Debate about Quantitative and Qualitative Research - Alan Bryman A Question of Method or Epistemology? SECTION TWO: SOME GENERAL MODELS Basic Mechanisms Generating Inequality of Educational Opportunity - Raymond Boudon Relative Deprivation - Mohammed Cherkaoui Elements and Mechanism of Production - Leon Walras The General Form of Society - Vilfredo Pareto The Social Organism - Herbert Spencer The Aimlessness of Cultural Development - Konrad Lorenz The Selectionist Paradigm and its Implications for Sociology - W G Runciman Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts - Emile Durkheim On the Concept of Function in Social Science - A R Radcliffe-Brown Sur lanalogie et lhomologie - Gabriel Tarde Morphology of the Folktale - Vladimir Propp The Structural Study of Myth - Claude L[ac]evi-Strauss Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives - Roland Barthes Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism - Erwin Panofsky PART FIVE: EXPLAINING AND UNDERSTANDING SECTION ONE: WHAT IS VERSTEHEN? The Development of Hermeneutics - Wilhelm Dilthey The Psychological a priori and its Polar Antitheses - Georg Simmel The Definition of Sociology and of Social Action - Max Weber Methodological Foundations The Operation Called Verstehen - Theodore Abel Verstehen and the Unconscious - Alberto Izzo A Historical Overview VOLUME FOUR PART FIVE: EXPLAINING AND UNDERSTANDING (CONTINUED) SECTION ONE: WHAT IS VERSTEHEN? (CONTINUED) Different Cultures, Different Rationalities? - Steven Lukes Interpretation and Hypothesis in Social Studies - Mario Bunge SECTION TWO: PHENOMENOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGY Interpretative Sociology - Alfred Schutz SECTION THREE: RATIONAL CHOICE MODEL Rational Choice and Sociological Theory - Siegwart Lindenberg New Pressures on Economics as a Social Science Contending Conceptions of the Theory of Rational Action - Karl-Dieter Opp Rational Action Theory for Sociology - John H Goldthorpe Risky Choices and Rationality - Albertina Oliverio The Case of HIV/AIDS Preventive Behaviours SECTION FOUR: COGNITIVE AND AXIOLOGICAL RATIONALITY Of the Sense of Justice, of Remorse and of the Consciousness of Merit - Adam Smith Religious Rejections of the World and Their Directions - Max Weber The Rationality Principle - Karl Popper Rational Choice Theory or Methodological Individualism? - Raymond Boudon PART SIX: FINDING OUT THE RIGHT THEORETICAL FRAME SECTION ONE: MAKING QUANTITATIVE DATA MEANINGFUL THROUGH QUALITATIVE THEORIES The Universal Welfare State as a Social Dilemma - Bo Rothstein SECTION TWO: HOW COMPETING THEORIES EXPLAIN THE SAME PHENOMENON Of the Expense of the Institutions for the Instruction of People of All Ages - Adam Smith The Example of the Americans Does Not Prove That a Democratic People Can Have No Aptitude and No Taste for Science, Literature or Art - Alexis de Tocqueville The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber Imitative Rites - Emile Durkheim Conclusion to Primitive Mentality - Lucien L[ac]evy-Bruhl Ressentiment and Moral Value Judgement - Max Scheler The Social Psychology of the World Religions - Max Weber African Traditional Thought and Western Science - Robin Horton From Tradition to Science Religion and the Decline of Magic - Keith Thomas Rational Fools - Amartya K Sen A Critique of the Behavioral Foundations of Economic Theory Not Just for the Money - Bruno S Frey An Economic Theory of Personal Motivation Beyond Homo Oeconomicus and Homo Sociologicus - C Mantzavinos