Introduction
1. Material Research Objects and Privileged Material Research
Objects
2. How Material Research Objects Are Selected
3. Model Cases and the Dream of Collective Methods
4. How Subfield Categories Shape Knowledge
5. The Schemas of Social Theory
6. The Model Cases of Global Knowledge
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Monika Krause is associate professor of sociology at the London
School of Economics. She is the author of The Good Project:
Humanitarian Relief NGOsandthe Fragmentation of Reason and
coeditor of Social Theory Now, both also published by the
University of Chicago Press.
"Krause has written a powerful, illuminating argument about how the
social sciences should work. It is a worthy successor to Max
Weber's Science as a Vocation." -- Richard Sennett, Urban
Initiatives, United Nations Habitat
"Model Cases is an ambitious and compelling contribution to
our understanding of the practice of scholarship, whose inner logic
Krause perceptively dissects across different disciplines and
methodologies. Her account of how scholars relate to the objects
they study offers foundational insights into how we argue and
perform research within the humanities." -- Carlos Spoerhase,
professor of German literature, Bielefeld University
"If the book didn't already have a subtitle, On Canonical
Research Objects and Sites, Monika Krause could have titled it
Model Cases: On the Metaphysics of the Syllabus. Her
fascinating book is an examination-even a deconstructive
analysis-of the two- or three-page document traditionally handed
out in the first class on a university program but now usually
posted on class management systems like Blackboard." * University
World News *
"What do we as scholars look at when we do research? That is the
simple but effective question that underlies Monika Krause's highly
instructive new book, Model Cases... It is a book that makes
us think about the collective research patterns that we are a part
of." * LSE Review of Books *
"Model Cases would be excellent for a graduate seminar on
the philosophy, theory, or methodology of a number of social
science disciplines." * Choice *
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