Contemporary Sociology 9(5) (September 1980):720—21. Let me put the matter very simply: Qualitative Sociology is a firstclass book, a tight package, a beautifully written thesis on the varieties of doing ethnography and what you do with it after you’ve got it. Its strength lies in the integration of theory and methods; it is a kind of manual for the analysis of social forms of experience. Starting with Leonard Schatzman and Anselm Strauss’ Field Research, through Robert Bogdan and Steven Taylor’s Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods, to John Lofland’s Doing Social Life, the literature on qualitative research has quickly blossomed in the past six years. The theory of choice, to date, has been symbolic interaction. The preferred method of data collection has been participant observation and/or informant interviewing. The theoretical task has been this: how to conceive the necessary relationships between patterns of collective action while providing first for the perspective of the participant, and, second, while retaining a concern for the production of “social order.” The work reviewed here deepens our appreciation of the first——capturing “the actor’s point of view”——through a discussion of participant observation, interviewing, personal accounts and life histories, and other strategies in symbolic interaction research. This enterprise dominates the first part of the book. The second part is the explication of the structure of everyday life. Here the book catches fire. Here we see the relationship between social organization and practical reasoning in everyday life. Here is the clearest discussion of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (called “conversational analysis”) that I have ever read. Writers Schwartz and Jacobs state up front that they set out to author a book of scope and substance. They have succeeded admirably. Qualitative Sociology is a major work, an extremely well-written and consistently high level treatment of all forms of qualitative sociology—— for example, ethnomethodology, phenomenological sociology, conversation analysis, cognitive sociology, interpretive understanding——not only symbolic interaction and research derived from fieldwork. The book is entirely too complex to summarizeinsuchareview.Icanonly evoke the book’s themes, not explicate them. Qualitative work characterizes human action as subjective, motivated, intentional, reflexive, intersubjective, and thus meaningful to actors in structuring their behavior. Whereas symbolic interaction derives, they argue, from Weber’s concern with the “content” and “meaning” of social reality, formalsociologystemsfromSimmel’s concern with the generic and transsituational features of sociation. The leading figures in Part 1 are Mead, Blumer, Glaser, and Strauss.

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定性社会学：一种疯狂的方法

当代社会学9（5）（1980年9月）：720-21。让我简单地讲一下：定性社会学是一本一流的书，一本紧凑的书，一本写得精美的论文，内容涉及人种志的研究方法以及获得后的处理方法。它的优势在于理论与方法的融合。它是一种用于分析社会经验形式的手册。从伦纳德·沙茨曼（Leonard Schatzman）和安塞姆·斯特劳斯（Anselm Strauss）的实地研究开始，到罗伯特·博格丹（Robert Bogdan）和史蒂芬·泰勒（Steven Taylor）的定性研究方法简介，再到约翰·洛夫兰（John Lofland）的《做社会生活》，在过去六年中，有关定性研究的文献迅速兴起。迄今为止，选择理论一直是象征性的互动。数据收集的首选方法是参与者观察和/或线人访谈。理论上的任务是：如何构想集体行动模式之间的必要关系，同时首先提供参与者的观点，其次提供对“社会秩序”产生的关注。在这里回顾的工作通过讨论参与者的观察，访谈，个人叙述和生活史以及其他符号互动研究中的策略，加深了我们对第一个观点（捕捉“演员的观点”）的理解。该企业主导了本书的第一部分。第二部分是日常生活结构的阐释。这本书着火了。在这里，我们看到了社会组织与日常生活中实践推理之间的关系。这是我所读过的关于民族方法论和对话分析（称为“对话分析”）的最清晰的讨论。作家施瓦茨和雅各布斯首先指出，他们着手编写一本关于范围和内容的书。他们取得了令人钦佩的成功。定性社会学是一项重要的工作，是对所有形式的定性社会学（例如，民族方法论，现象学社会学，对话分析，认知社会学，解释性理解）进行的极其精心编写且始终如一的高级处理，不仅是符号互动和衍生的研究从实地考察。这本书太复杂了，无法在这样的观点下进行总结。我只能唤起这本书的主题，而不是对其加以说明。定性工作将人类行为表征为主观，积极，有意，反身，主体间，因此对于行为者的行为构造有意义。他们认为，象征性互动源于韦伯对社会现实的“内容”和“含义”的关注，而形式社会学则源于西梅尔对社会的一般性和过渡性特性的关注。第1部分中的主要人物是Mead，Blumer，Glaser和Strauss。