The European tradition of qualitative research / edited by Raymond Boudon, Mohamed Cherkaoui and 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 Lukacs -- Problems in the Histography of Science / Alexandre Koyre -- 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 Besancon 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 -- 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 -- The Observers Observed / Jean Peneff -- French Survey Researchers at Work Research Concerning Prisons: Return to the Methodological Difficulties of Field Studies in this Area / Bruno Milly -- Volume Two: -- Part Two. Selecting a Type of Approach -- Section One. Case Studies -- On Family, Work and Social Change / Frederic le Play -- Neighbourhood Relations in the Making / Norbert Elias -- When Describing is Explaining / Henri Bergeron -- Section Two. Qualitative Analysis of Small Social Units -- The Social System at the Shop Level: The Plant Subculture and the Formal Authority System / Michel Crozier -- 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 Histories of the Latin and Germanic Nations from 1494-1514 / Leopold von Ranke -- La Priere / Marcel Mauss -- Danses et legendes 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 / Emile Durkheim -- Three Types of Christian Thought / Ernst Troeltsch -- General Statement of the Main Concepts / Ferdinand Tonnies -- 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 / Jurgen Habermas -- Volume Three: -- Part Three. Building Concepts (Continued) -- Section Three. Content Analysis -- Social Class, Linguistic Codes and Grammatical Elements / Basil B Bernstein -- Part Four. Building Theories -- Section One. Styles of Theory -- Caracteres fondamentaux de la methode positive dans l'etude rationnelle des phenomenes 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: A Question of Method or Epistemology? / Alan Bryman -- 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 -- Sur l'analogie et l'homologie / Gabriel Tarde -- Morphology of the Folktale / Vladimir Propp -- 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: A Historical Overview / Alberto Izzo -- 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 -- Opp Rational Action Theory for Sociology / John H Goldthorpe -- Risky Choices and Rationality: The Case of HIV / /AIDS Preventive Behaviours / Albertina Oliverio -- 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 -- 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.