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Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Towards Pragmatism
Taschenbuch von Patrick Baert
Sprache: Englisch

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In this ground-breaking new text, Patrick Baert analyses the central perspectives in the philosophy of social science, critically investigating the work of Durkheim, Weber, Popper, critical realism, critical theory, and Rorty's neo pragmatism. His lively account places key intellectual figures within the social and political contexts in which they were writing, and clearly shows how their views translated into empirical research.

In the final chapter, Baert sets out his own pragmatist perspective on the potential of social research for critique, arguing that it can help researchers learn as much about their own presuppositions as their subjects of study. Philosophy of Social Science: Towards Pragmatism is both an authoritative textbook, and an original proposal for an exciting new research agenda.

This lively textbook will be helpful to upper-level students looking for a detailed and yet lucid account of the main positions in the philosophy of social science. It will also appeal to those researchers who are sympathetic towards the pragmatist view that knowledge has the potential to increase the scope of human possibility.

In this ground-breaking new text, Patrick Baert analyses the central perspectives in the philosophy of social science, critically investigating the work of Durkheim, Weber, Popper, critical realism, critical theory, and Rorty's neo pragmatism. His lively account places key intellectual figures within the social and political contexts in which they were writing, and clearly shows how their views translated into empirical research.

In the final chapter, Baert sets out his own pragmatist perspective on the potential of social research for critique, arguing that it can help researchers learn as much about their own presuppositions as their subjects of study. Philosophy of Social Science: Towards Pragmatism is both an authoritative textbook, and an original proposal for an exciting new research agenda.

This lively textbook will be helpful to upper-level students looking for a detailed and yet lucid account of the main positions in the philosophy of social science. It will also appeal to those researchers who are sympathetic towards the pragmatist view that knowledge has the potential to increase the scope of human possibility.

Über den Autor
Patrick Baert is University Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

Chapter 1. Emile Durkheim's naturalism.

Introduction.

An uneasy relationship with positivism.

How to be a proper sociologist.

Application: the study of suicide.

Evaluation.

Further reading.

Bibliography.

Chapter 2. Max Weber's interpretative method.

Introduction.

Transcending the Methodenstreit.

Ideal types and different types of action.

Application: the Protestant Ethic.

Evaluation.

Further reading.

Bibliography.

Chapter 3. Karl Popper's falsificationism.

Introduction.

What science is about.

The controversy with Kuhn.

How to make social science scientific.

The problem with historicism and utopianism.

Methodological individualism.

Evaluation.

Further reading.

Bibliography.

Chapter 4. Critical realism.

The realist bandwagon.

Realism, reality and causality.

Creative scientists at work.

Contributions to social theory.

Application: British politics.

Evaluation.

Further reading.

Bibliography.

Chapter 5. Critical Theory.

Introduction.

The Early Frankfurt School.

Jürgen Habermas.

Further reading.

Bibliography.

Chapter 6. Richard Rorty and Pragmatism.

Introduction.

American pragmatism and Rorty.

The myth of scientific method.

The new left and the cultural left.

Evaluation.

Further reading.

Bibliography.

Chapter 7. A Pragmatist philosophy of the social sciences.

Outline of a pragmatist view.

Cultural anthropology.

Archaeology.

History and social sciences.

Some concluding remarks.

Notes.

References and Bibliography.

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Fachbereich: Populäre Darstellungen
Genre: Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780745622477
ISBN-10: 074562247X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Baert, Patrick
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße: 230 x 167 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Patrick Baert
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2005
Gewicht: 0,34 kg
Artikel-ID: 102281910
Über den Autor
Patrick Baert is University Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

Chapter 1. Emile Durkheim's naturalism.

Introduction.

An uneasy relationship with positivism.

How to be a proper sociologist.

Application: the study of suicide.

Evaluation.

Further reading.

Bibliography.

Chapter 2. Max Weber's interpretative method.

Introduction.

Transcending the Methodenstreit.

Ideal types and different types of action.

Application: the Protestant Ethic.

Evaluation.

Further reading.

Bibliography.

Chapter 3. Karl Popper's falsificationism.

Introduction.

What science is about.

The controversy with Kuhn.

How to make social science scientific.

The problem with historicism and utopianism.

Methodological individualism.

Evaluation.

Further reading.

Bibliography.

Chapter 4. Critical realism.

The realist bandwagon.

Realism, reality and causality.

Creative scientists at work.

Contributions to social theory.

Application: British politics.

Evaluation.

Further reading.

Bibliography.

Chapter 5. Critical Theory.

Introduction.

The Early Frankfurt School.

Jürgen Habermas.

Further reading.

Bibliography.

Chapter 6. Richard Rorty and Pragmatism.

Introduction.

American pragmatism and Rorty.

The myth of scientific method.

The new left and the cultural left.

Evaluation.

Further reading.

Bibliography.

Chapter 7. A Pragmatist philosophy of the social sciences.

Outline of a pragmatist view.

Cultural anthropology.

Archaeology.

History and social sciences.

Some concluding remarks.

Notes.

References and Bibliography.

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Fachbereich: Populäre Darstellungen
Genre: Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780745622477
ISBN-10: 074562247X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Baert, Patrick
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße: 230 x 167 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Patrick Baert
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2005
Gewicht: 0,34 kg
Artikel-ID: 102281910
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