Sociology of Education, Methods

Main group 1

• Booth, Wayne C. et al., The craft of research, Fourth edition., Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2016Compulsory*
• Passeron, Jean-Claude; Bourdieu, Pierre; Chamboredon, Jean-Claude, The Craft of Sociology: Epistemological Preliminaries, Berlin, De Gruyter, 1991Compulsory* (p. 1–77)
• Bourdieu, Pierre; Wacquant, Loïc J. D., An invitation to reflexive sociology, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1992Compulsory*
• Bourdieu, Pierre; Accardo, Alain, The weight of the world: social suffering in contemporary society, Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 1999Compulsory* ("Understanding", 20 pages)
• Feyerabend, Paul, Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge, 3. rev. ed., London, Verso, 1993Compulsory* (p. 14–19)
• Gadamer, Hans-Georg, On the Circle of Understanding, Part of: Hermeneutics versus science?: three German views: essays, Notre Dame, Ind., Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1988Compulsory* (p. 68–78)
• Gingras, Yves, Bibliometrics and research evaluation: uses and abuses, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, [2016]
• Hasselberg, Ylva, Drowning by numbers. On reading, writing and bibliometrics, Confero, vol. 1, no. 1, 2013, Link to PDFCompulsory* (p. 19–44)
• Lange, Matthew, Comparative-historical methods, 1st ed., Thousand Oaks, CA, SAGE Publications, 2013Compulsory*
• Mills, C. Wright, The sociological imagination, Oxford [England], Oxford University Press, 2000Compulsory*
• Popper, Karl R., The Logic of the Social Sciences, Part of: The positivist dispute in German sociology, Repr., London, Heinemann, cop. 1976, pr. 1977Compulsory* (p. 87–104)
• Stigler, Stephen M., The seven pillars of statistical wisdom, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2016Compulsory*
• Good Research Practice, Swedish Research Council, 2017, Good Research PracticeCompulsory*
• Wacquant, Loïs, Inside "the Zoon", Part of: The weight of the world: social suffering in contemporary society, Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 1999, p. 140–167Compulsory*

About 200 pages of examples from scientific investigations taken from earlier reading lists or other studies can be added by the course management.

The reading list for a 7.5-credit course comprises about 1000 pages. For a 15-credit course, the reading list comprises about 2000 pages.

* Compulsory