TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - What makes for a successful sociology? A response to "Against a descriptive turn"
JO  - British journal of sociology
A1  - Savage, Mike
SP  - 19
EP  - 27
VL  - 71
IS  - 1
N2  - This paper responds to Nick Gane's ?Against a descriptive turn?. I argue that descriptive research strategies are more open and inclusive than those which purport to be causal  where explanatory adequacy is assessed by expert insiders. I also show how open descriptive strategies can assist a wider explanatory purpose when these are conceived in non-positivist ways. I argue that epochalist sociology lacks an adequate temporal ontology because it collapses descriptive specificity back into overarching epoch descriptions. Finally, I argue that if the entire range of publications associated with the Great British Class Survey are considered, that it has demonstrated  a productive way of recognising  the significance of class which has facilitated major research advances in its wake.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0007-1315
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12713
ID  - ref1
ER  -