Cause And Meaning In The Social Sciences
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Cause And Meaning In The Social Sciences
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Author : Ernest Gellner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-11-23
Cause And Meaning In The Social Sciences written by Ernest Gellner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-23 with Philosophy categories.
This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts drawn from within a given society to its understanding, and the relation of theory to time.
Cause And Meaning In The Social Sciences
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Author : Ernest Gellner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-11-23
Cause And Meaning In The Social Sciences written by Ernest Gellner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-23 with Philosophy categories.
This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts drawn from within a given society to its understanding, and the relation of theory to time.
Explanation And Understanding In The Human Sciences
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Author : Gurpreet Mahajan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-02
Explanation And Understanding In The Human Sciences written by Gurpreet Mahajan and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-02 with Political Science categories.
Social scientists explain events by identifying reasons and causes. Occasionally they weave a series of events into a historical narrative. What is entailed in each kind of explanation? What form of explanation is adequate for the social sciences? In this lucid book, Gurpreet Mahajan surveys each of the major forms of inquiry—hermeneutic understanding, narrative, reason-action, and causal explanation—to examine how each method changes our perceptions of social reality. The third edition includes a new Preface that discusses some recent shifts in the conceptualization of the social sciences.
The Meaning Of Social Science
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Author : Albion W. Small
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Meaning Of Social Science written by Albion W. Small and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Education categories.
The Logic Of Social Science
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Author : James Mahoney
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-17
The Logic Of Social Science written by James Mahoney and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-17 with Political Science categories.
"Mahoney's starting point is the problem of essentialism in social science. Essentialism--the belief that the members of a category possess hidden properties ("essences") that make them members of the category and that endow them with a certain nature--is appropriate for scientific categories ("atoms", for instance) but not for human ones ("revolutions," for instance). Despite this, much social science research takes place from within an essentialist orientation; those who reject this assumption goes so far in the other direction as to reject the idea of an external reality, independent of human beings, altogether. Mahoney proposes an alternative approach that aspires to bridge this enduring rift in the social sciences between those who take a scientific approach and assume that social science categories correspond to external reality (and thus believe that the methods used in the natural sciences are generally appropriate for the social sciences) and those who take a constructivist approach and believe that because the categories used to understand the social world are humanly-constructed, they cannot possibly follow the science of the natural world. As the name suggests, scientific constructivism brings in aspects of both views and attempts to unite them. Drawing from cognitive science, it focuses on using the rational parts of our brain machinery to overcome the limitations and deeply seated biases (such as essentialism) of our evolved minds. Specifically, Mahoney puts forth a "set-theoretic analysis" that focuses on "sets" of categories as they exist in the mind that are also subject to the mathematical logic of set-theory. He spends the first four chapters of the book establishing the foundations and methods for set-theoretic analysis, the next four chapters looking and how this analysis fits with the existing tools of social science, and the final four chapters focusing on how this approach can be used to study and understand cases"--
Philosophical Foundations Of The Social Sciences
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Author : Harold Kincaid
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996
Philosophical Foundations Of The Social Sciences written by Harold Kincaid and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Philosophy categories.
This 1996 book argues that behind the diverse methods of the natural sciences lies a common core of scientific rationality.
The Dictionary Of Critical Social Sciences
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Author : T. R. Young
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-11
The Dictionary Of Critical Social Sciences written by T. R. Young and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-11 with Social Science categories.
This book is a teaching dictionary with the goal of de-mystifying current social science theory in a comprehensive, accessible format. It focuses on important terminology in progressive, radical, critical Marxist, feminist, left-liberal, postmodern, and semiotic contexts.
Readings In The Philosophy Of The Social Sciences
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Author : May Brodbeck
language : en
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Release Date : 1968
Readings In The Philosophy Of The Social Sciences written by May Brodbeck and has been published by New York : Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Social sciences categories.
"Selected bibliography": pages 737-768. Bibliographical footnotes.
For Science In The Social Sciences
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Author : David Papineau
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1987-06-18
For Science In The Social Sciences written by David Papineau and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-06-18 with Social Science categories.
The Sage Handbook Of The Philosophy Of Social Sciences
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Author : Ian C Jarvie
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2011-02-17
The Sage Handbook Of The Philosophy Of Social Sciences written by Ian C Jarvie and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-17 with Social Science categories.
- what is the relationship between the social sciences and the natural sciences? - where do today′s dominant approaches to doing social science come from? - what are the main fissures and debates in contemporary social scientific thought? - how are we to make sense of seemingly contrasting approaches to how social scientists find out about the world and justify their claims to have knowledge of it? In this exciting handbook, Ian Jarvie and Jesús Zamora-Bonilla have put together a wide-ranging and authoritative overview of the main philosophical currents and traditions at work in the social sciences today. Starting with the history of social scientific thought, this handbook sets out to explore that core fundamentals of social science practice, from issues of ontology and epistemology to issues of practical method. Along the way it investigates such notions as paradigm, empiricism, postmodernism, naturalism, language, agency, power, culture, and causality. Bringing together in one volume leading authorities in the field from around the world, this book will be a must-have for any serious scholar or student of the social sciences.