Methodology for the Human Sciences Systems of Inquiry

Name: Methodology for the Human Sciences Systems of Inquiry
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ISBN: 9780873956642

ISBN-10: 0873956648

ISBN-13: 9780873956642

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Authors: Donald E. Polkinghorne

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Methodology for the Human Sciences addresses the growing need for a comprehensive textbook that surveys the emerging body of literature on human science research and clearly describes procedures and methods for carrying out new research strategies. It provides an overview of developing methods, describes their commonalities and variations, and contains practical information on how to implement strategies in the field. In it, Donald Polkinghorne calls for a renewal of debate over which methods are appropriate for the study of human beings, proposing that the results of the extensive changes in the philosophy of science since 1960 call for a reexamination of the original issues of this…

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List price: $36.95
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 6/30/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836



List of Illustrations


Preface


Introduction



The Original Debate


Positivism


The Anti-Positivist Response


The Recurring Debate


Summary



The Received View of Science


The First Phase: The Vienna Circle


The Second Phase: Theoretical Networks


The Human Sciences and the Deductive System of Inquiry



Pragmatic Science


The Third Phase: Criticism of the Received View


The Fourth Phase: Sciences as Expressions of Various World Outlooks


The Fifth Phase: Historical Realism



Systems and Structures


Systems


Structuralism and Human Systems


Systems Inquiry and Methodology



Human Action


The Nature of Human Action


Explanations and Accounts of Human Action: Causal Explanations


Explanations and Accounts of Human Action: Acausal Explanations


Explanations and Accounts of Human Action: Linguistic Accounts


Practical Reasoning



Existential-Phenomenological and Hermeneutic Systems


The Existential-Phenomenological System of Inquiry


Hermeneutics (Interpretation)


Interpretation and the Human Sciences



Human Science Research


The Nature of Knowledge


Use of Linguistic Data


Concluding Remarks


Appendix: The Term "Human Science"


Notes


Bibliography


Index