Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Håkon Leiulfsrud and Peter Sohlberg
2 How Do You Establish the Research Object in Sociology?
Richard Swedberg
3 Historical Epistemology, Sociology, and Statistics
Johs Hjellbrekke
4 Constructing Social Structure
John Scott
5 Constructing the Conceptual Tools for the Global South
David Fasenfest and Raju J. Das
6 The Significance of Social Bonds
Göran Ahrne
7 Organisations as a Sociological Research Object
How Schools Reproduce Inequality
Raimund Hasse
8 Broken Promises and Lost Qualities
Constructing Management as a Research Object in Sociology and Anthropology
Emil André Røyrvik
9 On Thought Experiments in Sociology and the Power of Thinking
Michela Betta and Richard Swedberg
10 Constructing and Researching the Object in Time and Space
Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen
11 Academic Star Wars
Pierre Bourdieu and Dorothy E. Smith on Academic Work
Karin Widerberg
12 Living Theory
Reflections on Four Decades of Teaching Social Theory
Michael Burawoy
13 Postscript
Peter Sohlberg and Håkon Leiulfsrud
Index