For over twenty years Charles C. Ragin has been at the forefront of the development of innovative methods for social scientists. In "Redesigning Social Inquiry", he continues his campaign to revitalize the field, challenging major aspects of the conventional template for social science research while offering a clear alternative."Redesigning Social Inquiry" provides a substanti...(展开全部)

Truth and Social Reality: A Metaphysical Inquiry presents a new theory of social truth and social construction. The book weds truthmaker theory with recent work in social ontology, arguing that social truths are true in virtue of socially constructed portions of the world. It focuses on the construction of human social kinds like gender, race, class, and disability. The book of...(展开全部)

〔英〕罗杰·科特雷尔（Roger Cotterrell），法学与社会学硕士、法学博士，伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院法学理论荣誉教授，英国国家学术院院士、英国社会科学院院士，获得社会-法律研究协会授予的终身贡献奖，主要研究领域包括社会法律理论与法理学、比较法。 李俊，社会学博士，华东政法大学社会发展学院教授，主要研究领域：法律社会学、社会政策、社会研究方法。著有《社会结构变迁视野下的农村纠纷研究》（中国社会科学出版社2013年出版），《从生存到发展：转型时期农民工城市创业研究》（中国经济出版社2017年出版），在核心期刊发表论文40多篇，主持和参与多项国家与省部级社科基金项目。 张万洪，法学博士，武汉大学法学院教授，武汉大学人权研究院执行院长，武汉大学公益与发展法律研究中心主任，主要研究领域：法理学与人权法。

〔英〕罗杰·科特雷尔（Roger Cotterrell），法学与社会学硕士、法学博士，伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院法学理论荣誉教授，英国国家学术院院士、英国社会科学院院士，获得社会-法律研究协会授予的终身贡献奖，主要研究领域包括社会法律理论与法理学、比较法。 李俊，社会学博士，华东政法大学社会发展学院教授，主要研究领域：法律社会学、社会政策、社会研究方法。著有《社会结构变迁视野下的农村纠纷研究》（中国社会科学出版社2013年出版），《从生存到发展：转型时期农民工城市创业研究》（中国经济出版社2017年出版），在核心期刊发表论文40多篇，主持和参与多项国家与省部级社科基金项目。 张万洪，法学博士，武汉大学法学院教授，武汉大学人权研究院执行院长，武汉大学公益与发展法律研究中心主任，主要研究领域：法理学与人权法。

In this innovative approach to the practice of social science, Charles Ragin explores the use of fuzzy sets to bridge the divide between quantitative and qualitative methods. Paradoxically, the fuzzy set is a powerful tool because it replaces an unwieldy, "fuzzy" instrument (the variable, which establishes only the positions of cases relative to each other) with a precise one (...(展开全部)

Where and when have investigators aspired to study human culture with more trustworthy or 'objective' methods borrowed from the natural sciences? This book revisits the dominant scientific method, 'coding,' with which investigators from sociology to literary criticism have sampled texts and catalogued their cultural messages. By returning to the primary documents used in canoni...(展开全部)

This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, now benefitting from the collaboration of Filipe Carreira da Silva has been brought right up-to-date with cutting-edge developments in social theory today. It offers an easy-to-read but provocative account of the development of social theory, covering a range of key figures and clas...(展开全部)

Making Social Science Matter presents an exciting new approach to the social and behavioral sciences including theoretical argument, methodological guidelines, and examples of practical application. Why has social science failed in attempts to emulate natural science and produce normal theory? Bent Flyvbjerg argues that the strength of social sciences lies in its rich, reflexiv...(展开全部)

With innovative new chapters on process tracing, regression analysis, and natural experiments, the second edition of Rethinking Social Inquiry further extends the reach of this path-breaking book. The original debate with King, Keohane, and Verba_now updated_remains central to the volume, and the new material illuminates evolving discussions of essential methodological tools. T...(展开全部)