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Andrew Abbott

Time Matters

On Theory and Method

296 pages, 5 line drawings, 7 tables  6 x 9  © 2001

Cloth $65.00

ISBN: 9780226001029   Published July 2001

Paper $32.50

ISBN: 9780226001036   Published July 2001

Acknowledgments
Prologue An Autobiographical Introduction
Part One Methods and Assumptions
1 Transcending General Linear Reality
2 Seven Types of Ambiguity
3 The Causal Devolution
Part Two Time and Method
4 What Do Cases Do?
5 Conceptions of Time and Events in Social Science Methods
6 From Causes to Events
Part Three Time and Social Structure
7 Temporality and Process in Social Life
8 On the Concept of Turning Point
9 Things of Boundaries
Epilogue Time Matters
References
Index
Subjects



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