Jun
Abductive Analysis: Surprises and Theory Construction
Lund Social Science Methods Centre invites you to a seminar with Prof. Iddo Tavory from New York University, on abductive analysis, pragmatist philosophy and methodological precepts.
No registration is required for this seminar.
This talk outlines some of the main tenets of abductive analysis: an attempt to analytically center the surprises that emerge in the research process, and to think through such surprises as opportunities to develop theory within a particular community of inquiry. Outlining some of the inspiration of the approach in Pragmatist philosophy, and some methodological precepts, I will then exemplify this approach with current research revisiting Stanley Milgram's classic "obedience experiments."
Biography
Iddo Tavory is Professor of sociology at NYU, and a theorist of culture and interaction. His book projects span methodological work on "Abductive Analysis" (with Stefan Timmermans), ethnographic research on religion, identity and social worlds, and work on the relationship among modes of worth in cultural production (with Sonia Prelat and Shelly Ronen). Iddo has just finished writing a theoretical manuscript on "the situation," as well as developing projects on taste, morality and climate change. Among other awards, Iddo has received the Lewis A. Coser Award for theoretical agenda setting in sociology.
Organiser
Stina Bergman Blix, Professor at the Department of Sociology
Welcome on 9 June!
Arranged by Lund Social Science Methods Centre
About the event
Location:
G101 (Gamla lungkliniken), Sandgatan 11, Lund (changed premises!)
Target group:
Faculty members and all interested
Language:
In English
Contact:
stina [dot] bergman_blix [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se