Concepts in Action: Conceptual Constructionism

✍ Scribed by Leiulfsrud Håkon, Peter Sohlberg

• Publisher: BRILL
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 342
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences v. 118
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Concepts in Action focuses on what to do with theoretical concepts, rather than providing conveyed definitions. The book covers a variety of examples what to do, how to think, in order to develop and use concepts in the social sciences.

✦ Table of Contents

Concepts in Action: Conceptual Constructionism
Copyright
Contents
Preface
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 Conceptual Constructionism: An Introduction
2 On the Near Disappearance of Concepts in Mainstream Sociology
Part 1: Methodological Programs and Applications
3 What Do We Do with Norms—Conform, Break, Understand or Explain?
4 Colligation
5 Sensitizing Concepts in Action: Expanding the Framework
Part 2: Culture, Nature and Consumption
6 Culture as a Sociological Concept
7 Bringing Nature Back In
8 The Study of Consumption in Sociology—Beyond Utility Theory
Part 3: Social Structure, Organizations and Institutions
9 Social Structure
10 The Organization of Action
11 About Actors: An Institutional Perspective
12 The Family and Interwoven Concepts
13 Collective Action: Why is it so Difficult for the Social Sciences to Grasp the Rational Aspects of Collective Action?
Part 4: Class, Gender, Race and Social Recognition
14 The Status of the Political in the Concept of Class Structure
15 Gender as Analytic, Political and Interdisciplinary Concept
16 Race: A Contested and Travelling Concept
17 Recognition: Conceptualization and Context
Index