Gerard Delanty, Piet Strydom

Philosophies of Social Science: The Classic and Contemporary Readings

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of over sixty extracts from classic works on the philosophy of social science. It highlights the work of some of the influential authors who have shaped social science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Higher Education / Open University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 169mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 824g
• ISBN-13: 9780335208845
• ISBN-10: 0335208843
• Artikelnr.: 21312910

Autorenporträt

Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology in the University of Liverpool, UK. He was Visiting Professor at York University, Toronto in 1998, at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan in 2000, and he has taught at universities in Ireland, Germany and Italy. His books include Social Science: Beyond Constructivism and Realism (1997), Social Theory in a Changing World (1999), Modernity and Postmodernity: Knowledge, Power, the Self (2000), Challenging Knowledge: The University in the Knowledge Society (2002). Piet Strydom is Statutory Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Cork. He is a former founder-director of the Centre for European Social Research, Cork. Besides many articles on social theory and the philosophy of social science in anthologies and in such journals as Telos, Political Studies, Theory, Culture & Society, Philosophy and Social Criticism, European Journal of Social Theory, Current Sociology and Sociological Theory, books he has published include Discourse and Knowledge (2000), and Risk, Environment and Society (2002). He is currently writing a book on the new cognitive sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
What is the philosophy of social science?
PART 1
Positivism, its dissolution and the emergence of post-empiricism
Introduction: a general outline
The selected texts
1 EMILE DURKHEIM
What is a social fact? (1895)
2 OTTO NEURATH
The scientific world conception (1929)
3 CARL G. HEMPEL
Concept and theory in social science (1952)
4 ERNST NAGEL
Methodological problems of the social sciences (1961)
5 KARL POPPER
The problem of induction (1934)
6 RUDOLF CARNAP
Confirmation, testing and meaning (1936)
7 TALCOTT PARSONS
Theory and empirical fact (1937)
8 A.J. AYER
The characterization of sense-data (1940)
9 W.V.O. QUINE
Two dogmas of empiricism (1951)
10 LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Language games and meaning (1953)
11 STEPHEN TOULMIN
The evolution of scientific ideas (1961)
12 THOMAS KUHN
A role for history (1962)
13 IMRE LAKATOS
Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes (1970)
14 PAUL FEYERABEND
Against method (1975)
PART 2
The interpretative tradition
Introduction: a general outline
The selected texts
15 WILHELM DILTHEY
The development of hermeneutics (1900)
16 GEORG SIMMEL
On the nature of historical understanding (1918)
How is society possible? (1908)
17 MAX WEBER
'Objectivity' in social science (1904)
18 SIGMUND FREUD
The dream-work (1900)
A philosophy of life (1932)
19 ERNST CASSIRER
From a critique of abstraction to relationalism (1910)
20 KARL MANNHEIM
Competition as a cultural phenomenon (1929)
21 ALFRED SCHUTZ
Concept and theory formation in the social sciences (1954)
22 MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY
The philosopher and sociology (1960)
23 MARTIN HEIDEGGER
The age of the world picture (1938)
24 PETER WINCH
Philosophy and science (1958)
25 HANS-GEORG GADAMER
Hermeneutical understanding (1960)
26 JÜRGEN HABERMAS
The hermeneutic claim to universality (1973)
27 PAUL RICOEUR
Towards a critical hermeneutic: hermeneutics and the critique of ideology (1973)
28 CHARLES TAYLOR
Interpretation and the sciences of man (1971)
29 CLIFFORD GEERTZ
The thick description of culture (1973)
30 AARON CICOUREL
Method and measurement (1964)
31 HAROLD GARFINKEL
Rational properties of scientific and common-sense activities (1960)
32 ERVING GOFFMAN
Primary frameworks (1974)
PART 3
The critical tradition
Introduction: a general outline
The selected texts
33 MAX HORKHEIMER
Traditional and critical theory (1937)
34 HERBERT MARCUSE
Philosophy and critical theory (1937)
35 THEODOR W. ADORNO
Sociology and empirical research (1969)
36 JÜRGEN HABERMAS
Knowledge and human interests (1965)
The tasks of a critical theory (1981)
37 KARL-OTTO APEL
Types of social science in light of human cognitive interests (1977)
38 ALBRECHT WELLMER
Critical theory of society (1969)
39 ROBERTO MANGABEIRA UNGER
The critical argument (1975)
40 ALVIN GOULDNER
Towards a refiexive sociology (1970)
PART 4
Pragmatism, semiotics and transcendental pragmatics
Introduction: a general outline
The selected texts
41 CHARLES S. PEIRCE
A definition of pragmatic and pragmatism (1902)
42 JOHN DEWEY
Social inquiry (1938)
43 CHARLES MORRIS
Foundations of the theory of signs (1938)
Pragmatics and semantics (1946)
44 C. WRIGHT MILLS
Situated actions and vocabularies of motive (1940)
45 KARL-OTTO APEL
Transcendental pragmatics (1979)
PART 5
The structuralist controversy: language, discouse and practice
Introduction: a general outline
The selected texts
46 CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS
Structural analysis in linguistics and in anthropology (1958)
Language and the analysis of social laws (1951)
47 LUCIEN GOLDMANN
The human sciences and philosophy (1966)
48 MICHEL FOUCAULT
The order of things (1966)
Power/knowledge (1976)
49 JACQUES DERRIDA
Structure, sign and play in the discourses of the human sciences (1966)
50 PIERRE BOURDIEU
The logic of practice (1980)
PART 6
New directions and challenges
Introduction: a general outline
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