Generally Speaking: An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology - Eviatar Zerubavel

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Résumé :
In Generally Speaking, Eviatar Zerubavel introduces a method of theorizing designed to reveal abstract social patterns. He examines the theoretical and methodological process by which generic social patterns can be distilled from the culturally, historically, and situationally specific contexts. Zerubavel further draws on numerous examples from diverse cultural contexts, historical periods, and social domains to show what constitutes data in formal theorizing, how to collect that data, and how this approach works in concert with ethnography and historical forms of social inquiry.

Biographie:
Eviatar Zerubavel is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. His publications include The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, 2006); Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, and Community (Oxford University Press, 2011. Awarded Honorable mention in the 2012 PROSE Award Sociology and Social Work category); Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Structure of Irrelevance (Oxford University Press, 2015); and Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable (2018).