Constructing Social Research Objects

Hakon Leiulfsrud is Professor in Sociology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has published his work in the field of sociology with a special interest in social inequality, class and social stratification, labour market, and welfare state issues. He has been teaching sociological theory, courses in social inequality and welfare state, and research methods in Trondheim since the mid 1990s. Peter Sohlberg is Professor in Philosophy of Social Science and Sociology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has published his work in the fields of philosophy of science, sociology, and social psychology. He has been teaching social theory and philosophy of social science since the early 1990s in Uppsala, Stockholm and Trondheim. His most recent book is Functionalist Construction Work in Social Science. The Lost Heritage.

Preface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Hakon Leiulfsrud and Peter Sohlberg 2 How Do You Establish the Research Object in Sociology? Richard Swedberg 3 Historical Epistemology, Sociology, and Statistics Johs Hjellbrekke 4 Constructing Social Structure John Scott 5 Constructing the Conceptual Tools for the Global South David Fasenfest and Raju J. Das 6 The Significance of Social Bonds Goeran Ahrne 7 Organisations as a Sociological Research Object How Schools Reproduce Inequality Raimund Hasse 8 Broken Promises and Lost Qualities Constructing Management as a Research Object in Sociology and Anthropology Emil Andre Royrvik 9 On Thought Experiments in Sociology and the Power of Thinking Michela Betta and Richard Swedberg 10 Constructing and Researching the Object in Time and Space Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen 11 Academic Star Wars Pierre Bourdieu and Dorothy E. Smith on Academic Work Karin Widerberg 12 Living Theory Reflections on Four Decades of Teaching Social Theory Michael Burawoy 13 Postscript Peter Sohlberg and Hakon Leiulfsrud Index