The objects of social science
Presents a clear and structured analysis of the Philosophy of Social Science across each of its main disciplines: Anthropology, Sociology, History, Economics and Geography. Using a range of examples from specific social sciences, the book both identifies the practical and theoretical procedures invo...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum
2003.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31614127*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Objectivity, science and social science
- A skewed comparison
- What model of science for social science?
- What model of knowledge of social science?
- What model of object for social science?
- Chapter I: Anthropological objects
- From positivism to interpretivism
- Anthropological objects I: cockfighting in Bali
- Anthropological objects II: witchcraft in the Bocage
- Anthropological objects III: Nuer 'sacrifice" and Txikao 'couvade'
- Complex anthropological objects
- Chapter II: Sociological objects
- Received paradigms
- Against prescriptive assumptions: indexical social objects
- Sociological objects: stages of research and levels of construction
- A classic example: suicide
- Chapter III: Historical objects
- The normative view: explaining history by Hempelian laws
- "What' do historians explain?
- Quantitative and qualitative history: samples of research
- Making history in museums
- Chapter 4: Economic objects
- Economic theory and methodological concern
- Rhetorical objects of economic practice
- Realist objects of economic practice
- The 'partial' object of economics
- Chapter 5: Geographical objects
- A natural or a social science?
- 'Space and place': quantitative reconstructions
- 'Space and place': qualitative reconstructions
- 'Space and place': realist reconstructions
- The possible worlds of human geography.
