Event Catalogs as Theories
Event Catalogs as Theories
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作为理论的事件目录
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2002
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C. Tilly
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C. Tilly
所有经验性的社会研究，至少是隐含地建立在两个理论之上：一个理论解释被研究的现象，另一个理论解释有关该现象的证据的产生。这两种理论必然相互作用，相互制约。第二个理论回答了以下问题：现象如何留下痕迹，分析人员如何观察这些痕迹，分析人员如何根据这些痕迹重建现象的属性、要素、原因和影响。在有争议的政治研究中，事件目录提出了所有这些问题。所研究的现象的不同概念，如抗议、集体暴力、集体行动、冲突和有争议的主张，意味着不同的测量策略。聚合策略似乎遵循了将现象识别为抗议或暴力，从大多数竞争性概念中确定事件的策略，内部规则策略仅从将关键现象处理为集体行动，冲突或有争议的主张中得出。
All empirical social research rests, at least implicitly, on not one but two theories: a theory explaining the phenomenon under study, another theory explaining the generation of evidence concerning the phenomenon. The two theories necessarily interact, setting important constraints on each other. The second theory answers questions about how the phenomenon leaves traces, how analysts can observe those traces, and how analysts can reconstruct attributes, elements, causes, and effects of the phenomenon from those traces. As employed in studies of contentious politics, event catalogs raise all these questions. Competing conceptions of the phenomenon under study as protest, as collective violence, as collective action, as conflict, and as contentious claim-making imply different measurement strategies. The strategy of aggregation follows plausibly from identification of the phenomenon as protest or violence, the strategy of incidence from most of the competing conceptions, the strategy of internal regularities only from treatments of the crucial phenomenon as collective action, conflict, or contentious claim-making.