The European tradition in qualitative research/ edited by Raymond Boudon, Mohamed Cherkaoui & Pierre Demeulnaere.

VOLUME ONE

PART ONE: COLLECTING DATA
SECTION ONE: USING AVAILABLE DATA
An Analysis of the Verbal Content of Suicide Notes - Louis A Gottschalk and Goldine C Gleser
Intellectualism, Intellectuals and the History of Religion - Max Weber
The Church and the Social Classes - Bernard Groethuysen
Benjamin Franklin - Kurt Samuelsson
How the Spirit of Revolt Was Promoted by Well-Intentioned Efforts to Improve the People's Lot - Alexis de Tocqueville
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Georg Luk[ac]acs
Problems in the Histography of Science - Alexandre Koyr[ac]e
Can There Be an Alternative Mathematics? - David Bloor
Joy, High Spirits, Love, Tender Feelings, Devotion - Charles Darwin
The Handle - Georg Simmel
Designs as Signs - Ernst Hans Gombrich
Recent History - Quentin Bell
Understanding Errors in Perspective - Dominique Raynaud
Friedrich, or, The Other Fatherland - A Besan[ce]con
Structural Analysis - Siegfried Kracauer
SECTION TWO: COLLECTING NEW DATA
The Interview Technique in Social Anthropology - S F Nadel
Sur l'utilisation de l'entretien non directif en sociologie - Guy Michelat
La Formulation des questions d'enqu[ci]ete - Jean-Paul Gr[ac]emy
Une r[ac]esponse m[ac]ediane et `sans avis'
How to Explain Common Feelings of Justice - Emmanuelle Betton-Gossart
What Method of Empirical Analysis Shall We Choose?
Affluence and the British Class Structure - John H Goldthorpe and David Lockwood
The Principles of Selection of Cultural Data - Florian Znaniecki
Life Stories in the Bakers' Trade - Daniel Bertaux and Isabelle Bertaux-Wiame
The Observers Observed - Jean Peneff
French Survey Researchers at Work
Research Concerning Prisons - Bruno Milly
Return to the Methodological Difficulties of Field Studies in this Area


VOLUME TWO

PART TWO: SELECTING A TYPE OF APPROACH
SECTION ONE: CASE STUDIES
On Family, Work and Social Change - Fr[ac]ed[ac]eric le Play
Neighbourhood Relations in the Making - Norbert Elias
When Describing is Explaining - Henri Bergeron
Qualitative Methods in the Study of French Drug Addiction Treatment Policy
The Gains of Irrationality - Jean-Pierre Lavaud
SECTION TWO: QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SMALL SOCIAL UNITS
The Political System - E E Evans-Pritchard
The Social System at the Shop Level - Michel Crozier
The Plant Subculture and the Formal Authority System
SECTION THREE: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
How Towards the Middle of the Eighteenth Century Men of Letters Took the Lead in Politics and the Consequences of this New Development - Alexis de Tocqueville
Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation - Karl Marx
Introduction to the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective - Alexander Gerschenkron
The Kemalist Revolution in Comparative Perspective - S N Eisenstadt
PART THREE: BUILDING CONCEPTS
SECTION ONE: DESCRIPTION AND CONCEPTUALISATION
Preface to the First Edition of /f003Histories of the Latin and Germanic Nations from 1494-1514 - Leopold von Ranke
La Pri[gr]ere - Marcel Mauss
Danses et l[ac]egendes de la Chine ancienne - Marcel Granet
Conceptualization and Narration - W G Runciman
The Contours of High Modernity - Anthony Giddens
A Typology of Nationalisms - Ernst Gellner
SECTION TWO: CLASSIFYING AND BUILDING TYPOLOGIES
The Multidimensional Space of Classes - Karl Marx
How to Determine Social Causes and Social Types - [ac]Emile Durkheim
Three Types of Christian Thought - Ernst Troeltsch
General Statement of the Main Concepts - Ferdinand T[um]onnies
Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy - Max Weber
Political Systems of Highland Burma - Edward Leach
Polythetic Classification - Rodney Needham
Ideal Types and Historical Explanation - J W N Watkins
Some Functions of Qualitative Analysis in Social Research - A H Barton and P F Lazarsfeld
Four Whole Persons - Mary Douglas and Steven Ney
Formal and Empirical Pragmatics - J[um]urgen Habermas


VOLUME THREE

PART THREE: BUILDING CONCEPTS (CONTINUED)
SECTION THREE: CONTENT ANALYSIS
The Structure of Foreign News - Johan Galtung and Mari Holmboe Ruge
The Presentation of the Congo, Cuba and Cyprus Crises in Four Norwegian Newspapers
Social Class, Linguistic Codes and Grammatical Elements - Basil B Bernstein
PART FOUR: BUILDING THEORIES
SECTION ONE: STYLES OF THEORY
Caract[gr]eres fondamentaux de la m[ac]ethode positive dans l'[ac]etude rationnelle des ph[ac]enom[gr]enes sociaux - Auguste Comte
The Scientific Approach - Vilfredo Pareto
Introduction to On Sociology, Numbers, Narratives and the Integration of Research and Theory - John H Goldthorpe
The Debate about Quantitative and Qualitative Research - Alan Bryman
A Question of Method or Epistemology?
SECTION TWO: SOME GENERAL MODELS
Basic Mechanisms Generating Inequality of Educational Opportunity - Raymond Boudon
Relative Deprivation - Mohammed Cherkaoui
Elements and Mechanism of Production - Leon Walras
The General Form of Society - Vilfredo Pareto
The Social Organism - Herbert Spencer
The Aimlessness of Cultural Development - Konrad Lorenz
The Selectionist Paradigm and its Implications for Sociology - W G Runciman
Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts - Emile Durkheim
On the Concept of Function in Social Science - A R Radcliffe-Brown
Sur l'analogie et l'homologie - Gabriel Tarde
Morphology of the Folktale - Vladimir Propp
The Structural Study of Myth - Claude L[ac]evi-Strauss
Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives - Roland Barthes
Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism - Erwin Panofsky
PART FIVE: EXPLAINING AND UNDERSTANDING
SECTION ONE: WHAT IS `VERSTEHEN'?
The Development of Hermeneutics - Wilhelm Dilthey
The Psychological a priori and its Polar Antitheses - Georg Simmel
The Definition of Sociology and of Social Action - Max Weber
Methodological Foundations
The Operation Called Verstehen - Theodore Abel
Verstehen and the Unconscious - Alberto Izzo
A Historical Overview


VOLUME FOUR

PART FIVE: EXPLAINING AND UNDERSTANDING (CONTINUED)
SECTION ONE: WHAT IS `VERSTEHEN'? (CONTINUED)
Different Cultures, Different Rationalities? - Steven Lukes
Interpretation and Hypothesis in Social Studies - Mario Bunge
SECTION TWO: PHENOMENOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGY
Interpretative Sociology - Alfred Schutz
SECTION THREE: RATIONAL CHOICE MODEL
Rational Choice and Sociological Theory - Siegwart Lindenberg
New Pressures on Economics as a Social Science
Contending Conceptions of the Theory of Rational Action - Karl-Dieter Opp
Rational Action Theory for Sociology - John H Goldthorpe
Risky Choices and Rationality - Albertina Oliverio
The Case of HIV//AIDS Preventive Behaviours
SECTION FOUR: COGNITIVE AND AXIOLOGICAL RATIONALITY
Of the Sense of Justice, of Remorse and of the Consciousness of Merit - Adam Smith
Religious Rejections of the World and Their Directions - Max Weber
The Rationality Principle - Karl Popper
Rational Choice Theory or Methodological Individualism? - Raymond Boudon
PART SIX: FINDING OUT THE RIGHT THEORETICAL FRAME
SECTION ONE: MAKING QUANTITATIVE DATA MEANINGFUL THROUGH QUALITATIVE THEORIES
The Universal Welfare State as a Social Dilemma - Bo Rothstein
SECTION TWO: HOW COMPETING THEORIES EXPLAIN THE SAME PHENOMENON
Of the Expense of the Institutions for the Instruction of People of All Ages - Adam Smith
The Example of the Americans Does Not Prove That a Democratic People Can Have No Aptitude and No Taste for Science, Literature or Art - Alexis de Tocqueville
The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
Imitative Rites - Emile Durkheim
Conclusion to Primitive Mentality - Lucien L[ac]evy-Bruhl
Ressentiment and Moral Value Judgement - Max Scheler
The Social Psychology of the World Religions - Max Weber
African Traditional Thought and Western Science - Robin Horton
From Tradition to Science
Religion and the Decline of Magic - Keith Thomas
Rational Fools - Amartya K Sen
A Critique of the Behavioral Foundations of Economic Theory
Not Just for the Money - Bruno S Frey
An Economic Theory of Personal Motivation
Beyond Homo Oeconomicus and Homo Sociologicus - C Mantzavinos