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Tables of Contents for The Craft of Inquiry
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
1
10
The Audience
1
1
Paradigms of Inquiry
2
2
Personal History
4
3
Works Illustrating the Working Vocabulary
7
4
Chapter 1: The Craft of Inquiry
11
10
Theory vs. Method vs. Research
11
2
Theory, Methods, and Evidence in the Classic Canon
13
2
Solidarity, Rationality, and Production
15
3
Conclusions
18
3
Chapter 2: Designing a Research Project
21
11
Cognitive and Emotional Sources of Anxiety
22
2
Selecting a Problem
24
1
Research Questions as Entry Points
25
3
Theoretical and Empirical Tracks of Analysis
28
2
Conclusions
30
2
Chapter 3: The Construction of Arguments
32
22
Evidence and Theory
34
3
Human Agency
37
1
Foreground Multivariate Arguments
38
4
Foreground Interpretive Arguments
42
3
Foreground Historical Arguments
45
4
The Divorce of Theory from Evidence
49
1
Conclusions
50
4
Chapter 4: Foreground Multivariate Arguments
54
18
How Does the Social Integration of Groups Explain Suicide?
55
3
Multivariate Relations
55
1
Symbolic Meanings
56
1
Historical Processes
57
1
What Is the Importance of "Class" vs. "Race" for American Blacks?
58
5
Multivariate Relations
59
2
Historical Processes
61
2
Symbolic Meanings
63
1
Conclusion
63
1
What Are the Causes and Consequences of Racial Segregation?
63
7
Multivariate Relations
64
1
Historical Processes
65
1
Symbolic Meanings
66
1
A Dialectical Explanation
67
1
An Action Agenda?
67
3
Conclusions
70
2
Chapter 5: Foreground Interpretive Arguments
72
14
What Symbolic Meanings Construct the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism?
73
3
Symbolic Meanings
73
1
Historical Processes
74
1
Multivariate Relations
74
2
How Are Individual Identities Undermined in Total Institutions?
76
6
Symbolic Meanings
78
2
Multivariate Relations
80
1
Evidence and Theory
80
1
Historical Processes
81
1
Conclusion
82
1
How Do Men and Women Negotiate Housework?
82
3
Symbolic Meanings
82
1
Historical Processes
83
1
Multivariate Relations
84
1
Conclusions
85
1
Chapter 6: Foreground Historical Arguments
86
17
What Historical Processes Explain the Coup d'Etat in France by Louis Bonaparte on December 2, 1851?
87
6
Historical Processes
88
1
Symbolic Meanings
89
1
Multivariate Relations
90
3
Why Did Japan Become Fascist, China Become Communist, and Britain Remain Democratic?
93
5
Historical Processes
95
1
Multivariate Relations
96
1
Symbolic Meanings
97
1
How Did the Language of Labor Lead to Revolutionary Action in France Before and After the Old Regime?
98
4
Historical Processes
98
1
Multivariate Relations
99
1
Symbolic Meanings
100
2
Conclusions
102
1
Chapter 7: The Theoretical Power of Multiple Paradigms
103
18
Multiple Paradigms of Inquiry About the Welfare State
103
12
The Unit of Analysis
105
1
The Dependent Variable
105
3
The Independent Variables
108
4
The Analysis
112
1
A Historical Argument
113
2
Multiple Paradigms of Inquiry About Revolution
115
5
Tracks of Analysis
116
3
A Historical Argument
119
1
Conclusions
120
1
Chapter 8: Dialectical Explanations and the Sociological Imagination
121
14
Multiple Paradigms of Inquiry
121
2
Dialectical Explanations
123
2
Institutional Constraints on the Production of Social Knowledge
125
4
Sources of the Sociological Imagination
129
2
The Promise of Sociology
131
2
Conclusions
133
2
Notes
135
12
Selected Readings
147
13
Index
160