Leonidas Tsilipakos

Historical Understanding and Ethics in Social Science

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Can social scientific description capture the historically individual? Is the idea of an ethically committed social science morally defensible? This book offers a critical, historically-grounded perspective on these perennial methodological and ethical problems, in their current forms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032867786
• ISBN-10: 1032867787
• Artikelnr.: 72176971

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I: HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDING
1. Descriptive accuracy in history: The case of narrative explanations
2. Pareto decomposition and the holism of internal relations
3. Historicism and formal theory in cultural sociology: Two ways with the
King's second body
PART II: ETHICS
4. The idea of an ethically committed social science
5. Social criticism, moral reasoning and the literary form
6. Normative sociology and phronetic social science in the light of
practical reason
Conclusion