A Measure for Measures: A Manifesto for Empirical Sociology

by Ray Pawson

First Published in 2004. This challenging and pioneering work aims to provide a measure (a set of standards) for measures (empirical data) in sociological research. It argues that the critique of positivism has resulted in a methodological impasse. Criticism has pulled the rug from under positivist method but left nothing in its place. In a devastating and systematic critique the author rejects phenomenological and relativist objections to sociological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415026598
• ISBN13: 9780415026598
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"