Philosophy of the Social Sciences Towards Pragmatism

Name: Philosophy of the Social Sciences Towards Pragmatism
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ISBN: 9780745622477

ISBN-10: 074562247X

ISBN-13: 9780745622477

Edition: 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Patrick Baert

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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:…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 11/18/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.10" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Patrick Baert is University Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge



Acknowledgements


Introduction



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



Max Weber's interpretative method


Introduction


Transcending the Methodenstreit


Ideal types and different types of action


Application: the Protestant Ethic


Evaluation


Further reading


Bibliography



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



Critical realism


The realist bandwagon


Realism, reality and causality


Creative scientists at work


Contributions to social theory


Application: British politics


Evaluation


Further reading


Bibliography



Critical Theory


Introduction


The Early Frankfurt School


Juuml;rgen Habermas


Further reading


Bibliography



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



A Pragmatist philosophy of the social sciences Outline of a pragmatist view


Cultural anthropology


Archaeology


History and social sciences


Some concluding remarks