Metatheory, Metamethod, Meta-Data-Analysis: What, Why, and How?

1 September 1991

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Perspectives

Vol. 34 (3) , 377-390
https://doi.org/10.2307/1389517

Abstract

This paper examines recent developments in meta-study in sociology which involves metatheory, metamethod, and meta-data-analysis. It argues that the three branches of meta-study, though previously unrelated, are now rapidly converging, signaling, among other things, the existence of a sustained crisis in the discipline. It concludes that meta-study will continue to grow in sociology for some time to come.

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