Nigel Fielding, BA (Sussex) MA (Kent) PhD (LSE), is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a member of the Community of Experts of the European Science Foundation, and served on the Mixed Methods Research Association's presidential task force on the future of mixed methods. His interests in research methodology include mixed methods, socio-spatial methods, qualitative software, interview methods, field observation, and digitally-mediated fieldwork. Nigel has authored/edited 27 books, many in research methodology, including The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Sage, 2018 (second edition), with Grant Blank and Ray Lee.
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Between Micro and Macro - Nigel Fielding The Micro-Social Order - Karin Knorr-Cetina Autonomy Among Social Theories - Wes Sharrock and Rod Watson Semiotics and Social Theory - Peter K Manning Micro-Sociology and Power - Paul Rock Micro-Sociology and Micro-Economics - Colin Clark and Trevor Pinch Micro-Sociology and the `Duality of Structure' - John Brewer Individual and Social Connections - John Scott and Peter Cowley The `Structuration' of Action - Peter Abell Micro-Sociology and Macro Theory - Nigel Fielding
`This collection takes on issues of the first importance for sociology. The opening 'theory' chapters attempt to refine our understanding of the ontological configurations involved in perceiving structure and agency as a duality. Then comes the great novelty of the work in that the remaining papers address the issue of how knowledge of this duality should inform empirical research.... at the micro level there is knowledgeability in abundance here and Fielding and SAGE are to be congratulated for getting it out.' - Sociology