Explanation In Social Science
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The Limits Of Social Science
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Author : Martyn Hammersley
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2014-06-16
The Limits Of Social Science written by Martyn Hammersley and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-16 with Social Science categories.
What forms of knowledge can social science claim to produce? Does it employ causal analysis, and if so what does this entail? What role should values play in the work of social scientists? These are the questions addressed in this book. They are closely interrelated, and the answers offered here challenge many currently prevailing assumptions. They carry implications both for research practice, quantitative or qualitative, and for the public claims that social scientists make about the value of their work. The arguments underpinning this challenge to conventional wisdom are laid out in detail in the first half of the book. In later chapters their implications are explored for two substantive areas of intrinsic importance: the study of social mobility and educational inequalities; and explanations for urban riots, notably those that took place in London and other English cities in the summer of 2011.
The Explanation Of Social Action
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Author : John Levi Martin
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2011-08-11
The Explanation Of Social Action written by John Levi Martin and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-11 with Philosophy categories.
Why questions? What explanations? -- Causality and persons -- Authority and experience -- The grid of perception -- Action in and on a world -- A social aesthetics -- Valence and habit -- Fields and games -- Explanations explained.
Laws And Explanation In The Social Sciences
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Author : Lee C. Mcintyre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-08-27
Laws And Explanation In The Social Sciences written by Lee C. Mcintyre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-27 with Philosophy and social sciences categories.
The first full-length defense of social scientific laws to appear in the last twenty years, this book upholds the prospect of the nomological explanation of human behavior against those who maintain that this approach is impossible, impractical, or irrelevant. By pursuing an analogy with the natural sciences, McIntyre shows that the barriers to nom
Logics Of Critical Explanation In Social And Political Theory
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Author : Jason Glynos
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-09-12
Logics Of Critical Explanation In Social And Political Theory written by Jason Glynos and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-12 with Philosophy categories.
This book develops a novel approach to critical explanation as a function of logics, taking a distinctive approach to social science explanation, and political studies more specifically, which avoids the problem of scientism.
Approaches And Methodologies In The Social Sciences
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Author : Donatella Della Porta
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-08-28
Approaches And Methodologies In The Social Sciences written by Donatella Della Porta 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 2008-08-28 with Social Science categories.
A revolutionary textbook introducing masters and doctoral students to the major research approaches and methodologies in the social sciences. Written by an outstanding set of scholars, and derived from successful course teaching, this volume will empower students to choose their own approach to research, to justify this approach, and to situate it within the discipline. It addresses questions of ontology, epistemology and philosophy of social science, and proceeds to issues of methodology and research design essential for producing a good research proposal. It also introduces researchers to the main issues of debate and contention in the methodology of social sciences, identifying commonalities, historic continuities and genuine differences.
Interpretation And Social Knowledge
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Author : Isaac Ariail Reed
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-08-15
Interpretation And Social Knowledge written by Isaac Ariail Reed and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-15 with Philosophy categories.
For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the other rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. Interpretation and Social Knowledge suggests a different route, offering a way forward for an antinaturalist sociology that overcomes the opposition between interpretation and explanation and uses theory to build concrete, historically specific causal explanations of social phenomena.
Designing Social Inquiry
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Author : Gary King
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1994-05-02
Designing Social Inquiry written by Gary King 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 1994-05-02 with Social Science categories.
While heated arguments between practitioners of qualitative and quantitative research have begun to test the very integrity of the social sciences, Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba have produced a farsighted and timely book that promises to sharpen and strengthen a wide range of research performed in this field. These leading scholars, each representing diverse academic traditions, have developed a unified approach to valid descriptive and causal inference in qualitative research, where numerical measurement is either impossible or undesirable. Their book demonstrates that the same logic of inference underlies both good quantitative and good qualitative research designs, and their approach applies equally to each. Providing precepts intended to stimulate and discipline thought, the authors explore issues related to framing research questions, measuring the accuracy of data and uncertainty of empirical inferences, discovering causal effects, and generally improving qualitative research. Among the specific topics they address are interpretation and inference, comparative case studies, constructing causal theories, dependent and explanatory variables, the limits of random selection, selection bias, and errors in measurement. Mathematical notation is occasionally used to clarify concepts, but no prior knowledge of mathematics or statistics is assumed. The unified logic of inference that this book explicates will be enormously useful to qualitative researchers of all traditions and substantive fields.
Explanation And Understanding In The Human Sciences
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Author : Gurpreet Mahajan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1997
Explanation And Understanding In The Human Sciences written by Gurpreet Mahajan and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Philosophy categories.
Which form of explanation is adequate for the humans sciences? Mahajan argues that social reality can be perceived in different ways--hermeneutic understanding, narrative, reason action and causal explanation--and each alters our perception of reality. A new chapter on poststructuralist and postmodern theories brings this important book up-to-date with current thinking.
Explanation In Social Science
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Author : Robert R. Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Explanation In Social Science written by Robert R. Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Social sciences categories.
Explanation And Experience In Social Science
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Author : Robert Brown
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Explanation And Experience In Social Science written by Robert Brown and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Social Science categories.
According to their critics, social scientists rarely ask the right questions and cannot provide satisfactory answers even to the questions they ask themselves. Social scientists often discuss the nature of knowledge in their fields with a notable lack of clarity. Explanation and Experience in Social Science by Robert Brown dispels the confusion with cogency and wit; it is a systematic, sensible, and lucid analysis of the nature of the explanations put forward by social scientists. Explanation-making is first distinguished from "describing" and "reporting," and then classified into different types, based on different kinds of information used. The greater part of the book consists in discussion and examination of these types of explanation and their relationships, in which the usefulness and limitations of each are assessed. An extraordinary variety of examples from contemporary work in all the social sciences is used, including the fields of sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, demography, political science. and economics. The author makes it clear that good social explanation is possible and that it conforms to the requirements of all good scientific explanation. Explanation and Experience in Social Science is of interest to the practicing scientist--in fact--it is a must-have for any personal or public library with collections in the social sciences. Most studies in the philosophy of the sciences, natural and social, fall into two distinct groups: those written by philosophers for other philosophers and those produced by scientists for their fellow-scientists. The aim of this book is to discuss questions of philosophical interest as they come to be imbedded in the work of social scientists. Robert Brown received a degree in anthropology at the University of New Mexico and did field studies among American Indians before taking up graduate work in anthropology and philosophy at the University of Chicago. He has been at the Australian National University, as well as a fellow of its Institute of Advanced Studies.