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Forms of Life: The Method and Meaning of Sociology

Forms of Life: The Method and Meaning of Sociology

Collins, Harry

Paperback

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0262536641
ISBN13: 9780262536646
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Feb 12 2019
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A concise, accessible, and engaging guide for students and practitioners of sociology.

In Forms of Life, Harry Collins offers an introduction to social science methodology, drawing on his forty-plus years of conducting high-profile sociological research. In this concise, accessible, and engaging book, Collins explains not only how to do sociology (the method) but also how to think about sociology (the meaning). For example, he describes the three activities that are the foundations of sociological method (immersing oneself in a society; estranging oneself from that society; and explaining what has been discovered to those who have not been immersed) and goes on to consider broader questions of the meaning of science in relation to social science and the scientific authority of subjective methods. He explains that sociology is the study of social collectivities (often overlapping, subdividable, and embedded), and cites Wittgenstein's notion of forms of life in his definition of collectivity.

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