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.

• Introduction1. Material Research Objects and Privileged Material Research Objects2. How Material Research Objects Are Selected3. Model Cases and the Dream of Collective Methods4. How Subfield Categories Shape Knowledge5. The Schemas of Social Theory6. The Model Cases of Global KnowledgeConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

“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.”

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.

• Introduction1. Material Research Objects and Privileged Material Research Objects2. How Material Research Objects Are Selected3. Model Cases and the Dream of Collective Methods4. How Subfield Categories Shape Knowledge5. The Schemas of Social Theory6. The Model Cases of Global KnowledgeConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

“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.”

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.

• Introduction1. Material Research Objects and Privileged Material Research Objects2. How Material Research Objects Are Selected3. Model Cases and the Dream of Collective Methods4. How Subfield Categories Shape Knowledge5. The Schemas of Social Theory6. The Model Cases of Global KnowledgeConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

“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.”