The Art of Social Theory by Richard Swedberg

Author:Richard Swedberg [Swedberg, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-08-09T18:30:00+00:00

Develop Your Own Heuristic Rules!

The works by Abbott and Becker are very useful for a number of reasons, not least since they contain many interesting heuristic rules. By reading these works you also get a good sense for what a heuristic rule in social science looks like, something that makes it easier to develop your own.

This last point is important because what matters when you theorize is not so much to have access to a number of interesting heuristic rules that others have developed. These are often instructive, fun to read, and good to know. But what is much more important is to develop a set of heuristic rules of your own making, which help you to theorize (for example, Koedinger and Roll 2012: 791–93). Books in heuristics should in other words be used for inspiration, but what they advocate should not be copied.

By way of example of this do-it-yourself heuristics, I will mention my own rules. They have come into being over the years, and they help me to move forward when I try to theorize:

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