Concept Formation In Social Science Routledge Revivals
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Concept Formation In Social Science Routledge Revivals
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Author : William Outhwaite
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-10-22
Concept Formation In Social Science Routledge Revivals written by William Outhwaite and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-22 with Social Science categories.
First published in 1983, this book examines the problems of concept formation in the social sciences, and in particular sociology, from the standpoint of a realistic philosophy of science. Beginning with a discussion of positivistic, hermeneutic, rationalist and realistic philosophies of science, Dr Outhwaite argues that realism is best able to furnish rational criteria for the choice and specification of social scientific concepts. A realistic philosophy of science therefore acts as his reference point for the dialectical presentation of alternative accounts.
Concept Formation In Global Studies
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Author : Gennaro Ascione
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-06-13
Concept Formation In Global Studies written by Gennaro Ascione and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-13 with Philosophy categories.
The book proposes a new epistemological and methodological approach to concept formation across human and natural sciences, beyond Eurocentrism and specism. It elaborates a method enabling global epistemics to cope with multiplex challenges coming from geohistorical as well as epistemological standpoints whose methodological potential remains unexplored. It assumes monstrosity as the generative grammar of a new holistic approach to human knowledge, and draws from postcolonial, decolonial or post-western perspectives to place new methodological cornerstones, as well as from arts, astrology and magic from the Islamic and European Renaissance, indigenous knowledge, genetics, theoretical physics or Afrofuturism. The book aims at provoking a shift in critical perspectives, which do not acknowledge their own inability to steam an appropriate methodology of terminological and conceptual elaboration for the lexicon of contemporary human knowledge, out of a pressing demand: once agreed upon the world as a single yet multilayered spacetime of analysis, how should research about large-scale/long-term processes of social change advance, in order to cope with the asymmetrical power relations that materialize colonial history through heterarchies of class, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, knowledge, cosmology and ecology? This book struggles against the prejudice that the instances heterogeneous yet non canonical epistemics are in fact exclusively confined to provincial, exotic or solipsistic particularisms; therefore never as universalistic as the dominant ones. To address this problem, the book proposes: a different way to think of the relation between the abstract and the concrete; a new relation between data or histories, and concepts; an alternative pathway to cross-cultural translation in conceptual and terminological analysis; a new posture to inhabit the spacetimes at the border between translation and untranslatability.
New Philosophies Of Social Science Realism Hermeneutics And Critical Theory
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Author : William Outhwaite
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 1987-12-08
New Philosophies Of Social Science Realism Hermeneutics And Critical Theory written by William Outhwaite and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-12-08 with Social Science categories.
The demise of empiricist philosophies of science has contributed to the current disarray of philosophy in the social sciences. This book argues that a realist analysis of the structures and processes which make up the social world can provide a way out of its present impasse. These processes, ranging from the interpersonal negotiation of meaning to the constraining influence of administrative or market structures, cannot be understood as mere constructs either in the minds of the theorist or of the social factors themselves, since they actually generate the social world as we know it. The author develops some implications of this approach and presents a realist view of some of the principal theoretical traditions and controversies within sociology and other social sciences.
The Concept Of Social Change Routledge Revivals
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Author : Anthony D. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-01-14
The Concept Of Social Change Routledge Revivals written by Anthony D. Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-14 with Social Science categories.
Anthony Smith's important work on the concept of social change, first published in 1973, puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change. He shows that, in attempting to provide a theory of social change, functionalism reveals itself as a species of 'frozen' evolutionism. Functionalism, he argues, is unable to cope with the mechanisms of historical transitions or account for novelty and emergence; it confuses classification of variations with explanation of processes; and its endogenous view of change prevents it from coming to grips with the real events and transformations of the historical record. In his assessment of functionalism, Dr Smith traces its explanatory failures in its accounts of the developments of civilisation, modernisation and revolution. He concludes that the study of 'evolution' is largely irrelevant to the investigation of social change. He proposes instead an exogenous paradigm of social change, which places the study of contingent historical events at its centre.
Development
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Author : Stuart Corbridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Development written by Stuart Corbridge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
Social Theory As Science Routledge Revivals
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Author : Russell Keat
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011-01-31
Social Theory As Science Routledge Revivals written by Russell Keat and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-31 with Social Science categories.
This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life. This book combines an evaluation of different conceptions of the nature of science with an examination of important sociological theorists and frameworks. This second edition of the work was originally published in 1982.
Reading Hayek In The 21st Century
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Author : T. Papaioannou
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-09-18
Reading Hayek In The 21st Century written by T. Papaioannou and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-18 with Political Science categories.
Papaioannou offers a radical new reading of Hayek in the 21st century, arguing that the moral dimension of his political theory is based on the methodological implications of an epistemologically founded morality, a morality that must respect the natural limits of human knowledge.
Development
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Author : Stuart Corbridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Development written by Stuart Corbridge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
Sociology In Action Routledge Revivals
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Author : Christopher G. A. Bryant
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Sociology In Action Routledge Revivals written by Christopher G. A. Bryant and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with Social Science categories.
This book, first published in 1976, discusses four classical paradigms for sociology – the positivism of Saint-Simon and Comte, Durkheim, Marx and Weber – and four contemporary developments or revisions of them – the sociologie active of Dumazedier and his colleagues in France, sociology in Socialist Poland, the work of Dahrendorf and the ‘new sociology’ of Mills and his successors. Christopher Bryant suggests that no neutral language exists in which to compare the characteristics of these different paradigms, yet highlights those features which are common to all of them. Unique in its approach and analysis of the relationship between sociology and action, this book is of value and interest to students of sociology and theory and professional sociologists.
Cause And Meaning In The Social Sciences
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Author : Ernest Gellner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-02-28
Cause And Meaning In The Social Sciences written by Ernest Gellner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-28 with 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.