Social Scientific Methods
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 2EH407
Main group 1
- Alvesson, Mats; Gabriel, Yiannis; Paulsen, Roland, Return to meaning: a social science with something to say, 1 ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017Compulsory
- Breuer, Franz, Subjectivity and Reflexivity in the Social Sciences: Epistemic Windows and Methodical Consequences, Part of: Forum, qualitative social research, Bonn, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, vol. 4, no. 2Compulsory
- Ellis, Carolyn; Adams, Tony E; Bochner, Arthur P, Autoethnography: An Overview, Part of: Forum, qualitative social research, Bonn, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, vol. 12, no. 1Compulsory
- Gibbons, Michael, The new production of knowledge: the dynamics of science and research in contemporary societies, London, Sage, 1994Compulsory (Page 10–22, 79–94)
- Gieryn, Thomas F., Boundary-work and the demarcation of science from nonscience: strains and interests in professional ideologies of scientists, Part of: American sociological review, vol. 48, no. 6, 1983, p. 781–795Compulsory
- Goertz, Gary, A tale of two cultures: qualitative and quantitative research in the social sciences, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory (Chapter 1, p. 1–15)
- Hancké, Bob, Intelligent research design: a guide for beginning researchers in the social sciences, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009Compulsory (p. 10–34.)
- Lamont, Michèle; Molnár, Virág, The study of boundaries in the social sciences, Part of: Annual review of sociology [electronic resource], vol. 28, no. 1, 2002, p. 167–195Compulsory
- LAURENCE McFALLS; McFalls, Laurence H., Max Weber's 'Objectivity' Reconsidered, University of Toronto PressCompulsory (Drysdale, John, &
quot;Weber on objectivity: Advocate or critic?", page. 31–57) - Law, John, After method: mess in social science research, 1. ed., London, Routledge, cop. 2004 (Chapters. 1–3, 8)
- Leigh Star, Susan, Institutional Ecology, 'Translations' and Boundary Objects:: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39, Part of: Social studies of science., vol. 19, no. 3, 2016, p. 387–420Compulsory
- Leigh Star, Susan, This is Not a Boundary Object:: Reflections on the Origin of a Concept, Part of: Science, technology, & human values, vol. 35, no. 5, 2010, p. 601 – 617Compulsory
- Porter, Theodore M, Making things quantitative, Part of: Science in context., vol. 7, no. 3, 1994, p. 389 – 407Compulsory
- Porter, Theodore M, Speaking precision to power: The modern political role of social science, Part of: Science in context., vol. 73, no. 4, 2006, p. 1273 – 1294Compulsory
- Shapin, Steven, The sciences of subjectivity, Part of: Social studies of science., vol. 42, no. 2, 2012, p. 170–184Compulsory
- Swedberg, Richard, Theorizing in social science: the context of discovery, Stanford, Stanford Social Sciences, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2014Compulsory (p. 1–28)
Additional articles will be specified in the course instructions
* Compulsory