{"product_id":"9781138161825","title":"A Measure for Measures : A Manifesto for Empirical Sociology","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst Published in 2004. This challenging and pioneering work aims to provide a measure (a set of standards) for measures (empirical data) in sociological research. It argues that the critique of positivism has resulted in a methodological impasse. Criticism has pulled the rug from under positivist method but left nothing in its place. In a devastating and systematic critique the author rejects phenomenological and relativist objections to sociological measurement. A wholly new model for the empirical substantiation of sociological theory is developed based on an examination of scientific measurement techniques and a reading of realist philosophical principles. Unlike many books heralding a new direction in sociology, A MEASURE FOR MEASURES goes beyond meta-theory, providing detailed examples to show how the 'new realism' can provide a viable empirical method.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48729293488363,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":428.48,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781138161825-1.jpg?v=1781655697","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781138161825","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}