Objects of Social Science
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2003
224 pages
978-1-84714-110-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 involved in the identification of the object and, at the same time, raises questions about the very objectivity of these procedures in analyzing the object.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-84714-110-1 (9781847141101)
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Eleonora Montuschi teaches Philosophy of Social Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she is Deputy Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Objectivity, Science and Social Science
- 1. A Skewed Comparison
- 2. What Model of Science for Social Science?
- 3. What Model of Knowledge for Social Science?
- 4. What Model of Object for Social Science?
- Chapter One: Anthropological Objects
- 1. From Positivism to Interpretivism
- 2. Anthropological Objects I: Cockfighting in Bali
- 3. Anthropological Objects II: Witchcraft in the Bocage
- 4. Anthropological Objects III: Nuer 'Sacrifice' and Txikao 'Couvade'
- 5. Complex Anthropological Objects
- Chapter Two: Sociological Objects
- 1. Received Paradigms
- 2. Against Prescriptive Assumptions: Indexical Social Objects
- 3. Sociological Objects: Stages of Research and Levels of Construction
- 4. A Classic Example: Suicide
- Chapter Three: Historical Objects
- 1. The Normative View: Explaining History by Hempelian Laws
- 2. 'What' do Historians Explain?
- 3. Quantitative and Qualitative History: Samples of Research
- 4. Making History in Museums
- Chapter Four: Economic Objects
- 1. Economic Theory and Methodological Concern
- 2. Rhetorical Objects of Economic Practice
- 3. Realist Objects of Economic Practice
- 4. The 'Partial' Object of Economics
- Chapter Five: Geographical Objects
- 1. A Natural or a Social Science?
- 2. 'Space and Place': Quantitative Reconstructions
- 3. 'Space and Place': Qualitative Reconstructions
- 4. 'Space and Place': Realist Reconstructions
- 5. The Possible Worlds of Human Geography
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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