Method and Measurement in Sociology, Fifty Years On

Autor/inn/en	Smith, Robin James; Atkinson, Paul
Titel	Method and Measurement in Sociology, Fifty Years On
Quelle	In: International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 19 (2016) 1, S.99-110 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1364-5579
DOI	10.1080/13645579.2015.1068010
Schlagwörter	Sociology; Measurement; Evaluation Methods; Measurement Techniques; Books + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziologie; Messverfahren; Messtechnik; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie
Abstract	In this article, we revisit Aaron Cicourel's classic text "Method and Measurement in Sociology." We consider the legacy and influence of the book in the context of the continued and urgent significance of such properly methodological inquiry. We examine, in particular, the ways in which Cicourel's concern with decisions of measurement -- as a situated, contingent and unavoidably practical accomplishment -- makes a critical contribution to the understanding of measurement within sociology and serves as continued inspiration for the sociology of contemporary measurement practices in the context of proliferating regimes of institutional performance measurement and league tables, risk assessment and audit. We recommend a critical engagement with this text in the sociological examination of social inquiry -- avoiding both overly subjective interpretations of social phenomena and the arbitrary application of crude categories to complex forms of organisation -- and in sociology's continued warrant to critically engage with the practices in and through which social reality is (re)produced. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01