Code: 04641233

Usable Theory

Name: Usable Theory
Brand: Princeton University Press
SKU: 04641233
Price: 55.37 EUR
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Author: Dietrich Rueschemeyer
ISBN: 9780691129594

by Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2009
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The project of twentieth-century sociology and political science - to create predictive scientific theory - resulted in few full-scale theories that can be taken off the shelf and successfully applied to empirical puzzles. Yet focused 'theory frames' that formulate problems and point to relevant causal factors and conditions have produced vibrant, insightful, and analytically oriented empirical research. While theory frames alone cannot offer explanation or prediction, they guide empirical theory formation and give direction to inferences from empirical evidence. They are also responsible for much of the progress in the social sciences. In "Usable Theory", distinguished sociologist Dietrich Rueschemeyer shows graduate students and researchers how to construct theory frames and use them to develop valid empirical hypotheses in the course of empirical social and political research. Combining new ideas as well as analytic tools derived from classic and recent theoretical traditions, the book enlarges the rationalist model of action by focusing on knowledge, norms, preferences, and emotions, and it discusses larger social formations that shape elementary forms of action. Throughout, "Usable Theory" seeks to mobilize the implicit theoretical social knowledge used in everyday life. It offers tools for theory building in social and political research. It complements the rationalist model of action with discussions of knowledge, norms, preferences, and emotions. It relates theoretical ideas to problems of methodology. It situates elementary forms of action in relation to larger formations. It combines new ideas with themes from classic and more recent theories.