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The Research Event: Towards Prospective Methodologies in Sociology book cover

1st Edition

The Research Event Towards Prospective Methodologies in Sociology

By Mike Michael Copyright 2022
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge
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How can we research the not-as-yet? The Research Event is concerned with enabling and nurturing an empirical and analytic sensibility that can address – that is speculate on – the emergent and the prospective in social life. A distinctive and novel contribution, this book introduces and expands on the notion of the ‘research event’, equipping the researcher with the speculative means to... Read more

1. Introduction: The Research Event

2. Research Questions and the Sub-Topical

3. The Research Event’s Fit: Anecdote, Affect and Attunement

4. Idiot and Parasite: On Productive Disconcertment

5. Speculation: Fabulating and Fabricating the Idiot

6. Inter-Disciplinarity and Practice: We Are All Practitioners…

7. The Event of Analysis: Patterns, Abstraction, Expression

8. Concluding…but not Ending

Biography

Mike Michael is a sociologist of science and technology, and a professor in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter. His research interests include everyday life and technoscience; culture and bioscience; and prospective methodologies. He is author of Actor–Network Theory (2017).

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