New directions in sociology: essays on theory and methodology in the 21st century

Introduction / Ieva Zake / Michael DeCesare

Part I. Theory

Section 1. Inspirations from the Past

1. Hermeneutics and Sociology: Deepening the Interpretive Perspective / Isaac Reed / Benjamin Lamb-Books

2. The Austrian School: Old Ideas in Economics and New Research Opportunities in Sociology / Joshua McCabe / Brian Pitt

3. Karl Popper's Criticism of Sociology: Renewing the Call for an Open Sociology / Ieva Zake

Section 2. New Paths Forward

4. Culture, Agency and the Means of Simulation: Critical Assessment of Postmodernism / David Boyns

5. Consequences of Experience: The Place of Life Course and Biography in Theory Formulation / Keith Kerr

6. Critical Space: Divisions, Ambiguities, and Conceptions of Space in Social Theory / Patricia Snell

7. Finding Coherence in Sociology: (Finally!) A Foundational Theory / Debbie Kasper

Part II. Methodology

Section 3. Tactical Innovations

8. Shut Up in Measureless Content: Confronting the Measurement Problem in Sociology / Michael DeCesare

9. In Defense of Doing Nothing: The Methodological Utility of Introversion / Peter Moskos

Section 4. Strategic Approaches

10. The Neglected Virtues of Comparative-Historical Methods / Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur

11. Autoethnography: The Sociological Through the Personal / Natalia Ruiz-Junco / Salvador Vidal-Ortiz

12. Fictional Stories: A Method for Doing Sociology / Todd Schoepflin / Peter Kaufman

Conclusion / Ieva Zake / Michael DeCesare

About the Contributors

Index