Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences
by Smith, Mark J.Edition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2020-12-30
Publisher(s): Sage Pubns Ltd
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Summary
This four-volume set of essays on the philosophical and methodological debates in the social sciences, builds on Mark Smith's highly successful first set of essays (SAGE 2005). This new set draws together classic and contemporary material on key debates, such as: the linguistic turn in social science; reformist and transformist social science and discursive approaches to social research.Volume One: Language and Scientific KnowledgeVolume Two: Authentic, Relevant and Adequate KnowledgeVolume Three: Transformist Social Science: Feminism, Critical Realism and Emancipatory KnowledgeVolume Four: Discursive Social Science
Table of Contents
| Canons and Custodians (Scientific Inquiry in the 20th Century) | |
| Language, Explanation and Reality | |
| The Elimination of Metaphysics and The a priori | |
| How a priori Knowledge Is Possible | |
| Verification | |
| The Function of General Laws in History | |
| Empirical Propositions and Hypothetical Statements | |
| Logical Translation | |
| Popperian Interventions and the Problems of Positivism | |
| Fundamental Problems and A Theory of Method | |
| Science, Conjectures and Refutations | |
| Conjectural Knowledge | |
| My Solution of the Problem of Induction | |
| Two Dogmas of Empiricism | |
| Positivism and Its Critics | |
| Concept Formation in the Social Sciences | |
| Problems of Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences | |
| Typological Methods in the Social Sciences | |
| Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences | |
| Understanding Social Scientific Practice | |
| Acknowledging Imagination and Complexity in the Social World | |
| Ideal Types and Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy | |
| Common-Sense and Scientific Interpretation of Human Action | |
| Scientism | |
| Are the Social Sciences Really Inferior? | |
| Interpretation and Meaning in Social Science | |
| Understanding People | |
| Interpretation and the Sciences of Man | |
| Routine and Everyday Activities and Common-Sense Knowledge of Social Structures | |
| Naturalisms and Anti-Naturalisms | |
| Science and Solidarity | |
| Empiricism, Idealism and Realism | |
| An Essay in Social Psychology | |
| (Natural And Social) Scientific Knowledge as a Social Product | |
| Paradigms Etc | |
| What Scientists Do ... | |
| Normal Science and The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions | |
| Kuhn's Second Thoughts | |
| Putting Philosophy to Work | |
| The TEA Set | |
| Tacit Knowledge and Scientific Networks | |
| Science as Gift-Giving | |
| The Cycle of Credibility | |
| The Strong Programme in the Sociology of Knowledge | |
| Naturalism, Epistemological Individualism and The Strong Programme | |
| Mode 1 and Mode 2 Knowledge production | |
| ... and What Scientists Should Do! | |
| Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes | |
| Normal Science and Its Dangers | |
| On the Critique of Scientific Reason | |
| For Method | |
| Answering the Relativist Critique of Methodology of Kuhn and Feyerabend | |
| Paradigms and Research Programmes in Social Scientific Practice | |
| Kuhn versus Lakatos, or Paradigms versus Research Programmes in the History of Economics | |
| The Lakatosian Legacy in Economic Methodology | |
| Objectivity, Neutrality and Paradigms in Political Science | |
| Reinventing the Social Sciences (Towards a Postdisciplinary Future) | |
| New Debates and Situated Knowledges | |
| The Debate between Relativists and Absolutists | |
| A Reappraisal | |
| Structuralism, Post-Structuralism and the Production of Culture | |
| Societies | |
| Problems of Explanation and the Aims of Social Science | |
| From the Woman Question in Science to the Science Question in Feminism | |
| Feminisms and Models of Qualitative Research | |
| Is Science Multicultural? Challenges, Resources, Opportunities, Uncertainties | |
| Applications | |
| The Rhetoric of Economics | |
| Is There a Postmodern Sociology? | |
| Two Philosophies of the Rhetoric of Economics | |
| A Realist Perspective on Contemporary Economic Theory | |
| Geohistorical Explanation and Problems of Narrative | |
| Prospects for a Post-Disciplinary Social Science | |
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