Pour en finir avec la réalité unilinéaire: Le parcours méthodologique de Andrew Abbott

Fabiani, Jean Louis

doi:10.1017/s0395264900004777

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“…A cet dgard, les M6thodes d'Appariement Optimal permettent de r6concilier les oppositions artificielles entre thdorie et pratique, et entre traitement quantitatif et qualitatif des faits sociaux. C'est ce que note Jean-Louis Fabiani (2003) quand il souligne le caractère int6grateur de cette approche qui tient a la fois de la ddmarche analytique et de la ddmarche narrative. Les Mdthodes d'Appariement Optimal renouvellent consid6rablement les perspectives quantitatives de la sociologie et m6ritent d'etre int6grdes a la boite A outil du sociologue pour etre utilisdes quand les besoins thdoriques 1'exigent.…”

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Introduction aux méthodes d'appariement optimal (Optimal Matching Analysis)

Lesnard

Pol

2006

Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie S

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Introduction to Optimal Matching Analysis: This paper provides an introduction to a new statistical technique for describing sequences: Optimal Matching Analysis (OMA). Borrowed from biology, this technique is based on rather simple principles that can be adapted to suit the theoretical requirements of different analyses. Since OMA is not based on any causal assumptions, it is particularly well-adapted for sociologists who retemporalize action by analyzing it as a process. Two applications of Optimal Matching to time-use data are proposed to demonstrate its flexibility and also its sociological interest. Optimal Matching Analysis, Sequences, Epistemology, Dining, Temporality of Evening Meal, Work Schedules.Résumé : Cet article vise & a g r a v e ; présenter les fondements d'une nouvelle technique statistique qui permet de décrire les séquences : les Méthodes d'Appariement Optimal (MAO). Empruntée & a g r a v e ; la biologie moléculaire, cette technique repose sur des principes assez simples et peut être adaptée aux exigences théoriques de l'analyse. Parce qu'elles permettent de comparer des séquences sans présumer de relations de cause & a g r a v e ; effet, les MAO présentent également de nombreux atouts pour le sociologue puisqu'elles lui permettent de retemporaliser l'action en la saisissant en termes de processus et de proposer une nouvelle approche des faits sociaux. Deux applications de cette méthode aux emplois du temps des Français sont proposées pour illustrer le fonctionnement et la flexibilité

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Introduction aux méthodes d'appariement optimal (Optimal Matching Analysis)

Lesnard

Pol

2006

Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie S

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“…The "Silicon Valley culture" is presented as universal and rational by tech workers because they seek to develop integration. To do so, they decontextualize certain features of an object (meaning here cultural traits of newcomers), reduce historicity and diversity to measurable, comparable, and assessable indicators (Fabiani 2003). Indeed, the explicitness and publicity of conventions offer a practical, cognitive resource for professionals in the region.…”

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Culture as a Universal Variable Opportunity Flow and Selection Process in Silicon Valley

Alexandre

2022

Glocalism

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In Silicon Valley, new technology is considered to be second nature. Techies from all over the world go there to develop companies, solutions or projects related to it. To do this, they need to manage two processes simultaneously: first, to integrate a growing flow of entrants and possible partners and, secondly, to select limited options between multiple opportunities and potential matches. This article analyzes the way Silicon Valley professionals handle this double bind. Based on a survey in the region and conceptual tools inherited from the sociology of globalization, it sheds light on how they build up, use and communicate about “culture” as a measurable and assessable variable. On the one hand, promotion of Silicon Valley’s “culture codes” increases the flow of entrants. On the other hand, from the techies’ point of view, acceptance of these codes by newcomers makes the selection process easier and more rational.

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“…Abbott sought to break down these affinities by reintroducing a narrative dimension into positivism. This meant proposing an alternative to the “paradigm of variables” that dominates quantitative empiricism and its implicit presuppositions (Abbott 2001b; Fabiani 2003). The analysis of sequences provides a set of tools for developing this alternative, among which Abbott singled out OM.…”

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Robette

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Lelièvre

2015

Sociological Methodology

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Xavier Bry, I3M, Université Montpellier 2 Éva Lelièvre, INED "Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise." (Tukey 1962) The publication of our article in Sociological Methodology was the successful conclusion of a long "sequence" involving one journal's refusal to referee it (for not being in their field), a presentation at the RC33 conference of the ISA in 2012, and submission to SM followed by six rounds of revisions-a record both for that journal and for us. The symposium concerning the article has thus gone much further than we would have hoped when we started the work in 2009. Indeed, we are grateful for the opportunity we have thus had to exchange with specialists in sequence analysis (and life course analysis) and in this way construct a necessarily partial and temporary situation report on the progress made by this family of techniques. We do not have the space in this rejoinder to discuss all the criticisms and observations we have received. However, certain patterns have emerged and we shall try to address the most "robust". First, we must point out and rectify a few misunderstandings.

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Pour en finir avec la réalité unilinéaire: Le parcours méthodologique de Andrew Abbott

Cited by 15 publications

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Introduction aux méthodes d'appariement optimal (Optimal Matching Analysis)

Introduction aux méthodes d'appariement optimal (Optimal Matching Analysis)

Culture as a Universal Variable Opportunity Flow and Selection Process in Silicon Valley

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