Social Science
2nd Edition
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9780335217212
© 2005 | Published: June 16, 2005
What is social science?Does social scientific knowledge differ from other kinds of knowledge, such as the natural sciences and common sense?What is the relation between method and knowledge?This concise and accessible book provides a critical discuss…
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Introduction: Challenges for Social Science
1. Positivism, Science and the Politics of Knowledge
2. Hermeneutics and Interpretation: The Search for Meaning
3. The Dialectical Imagination: Marxism, Critique and Emancipation
4. Communication and Pragmatism: Habermas, Apel and the Renewal of Critical Social Science
5. Deconstructionism and Postmodernism: Implications of the Cultural Turn
6. Return of the Actor: The Reflexive Turn and Feminist Standpoint Epistemology
7. Constructivism and Realism
8. Social Science and Public Discourse
Bibliography
1. Positivism, Science and the Politics of Knowledge
2. Hermeneutics and Interpretation: The Search for Meaning
3. The Dialectical Imagination: Marxism, Critique and Emancipation
4. Communication and Pragmatism: Habermas, Apel and the Renewal of Critical Social Science
5. Deconstructionism and Postmodernism: Implications of the Cultural Turn
6. Return of the Actor: The Reflexive Turn and Feminist Standpoint Epistemology
7. Constructivism and Realism
8. Social Science and Public Discourse
Bibliography