Capital methodological issues in Sociology
21 Outubro 2021, 11:00 • Fernando Jorge da Costa de Brissos
1. Quant vs. quali: history and present status of the main divide in sociological methodology.
1.1. The underlying divergence between American and European sociology.
1.2. Quanti and quali should coexist: good science uses as many tools as possible.
2. On data collection procedures.
2.1. Improvise, adapt, overcome: social sciences are crucially different from
hard sciences.
2.2. The main data collection procedures utilized in contemporary and non-contemporary sociology.
2.3. There is a place for impressionistic research and the very nature of fieldwork in disciplines such as sociology explains it.