Objects of Social Science

Name: Objects of Social Science
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ISBN: 9780826466358

ISBN-10: 0826466354

ISBN-13: 9780826466358

Edition: 2003

Authors: Eleonora Montuschi, Montuschi

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Eleonora Montuschi offers a clear and structured analysis of the philosophy of social science across each of its main disciplines: anthropology, sociology, history, economics and geography.

Book details

List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 3/14/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.37" tall
Weight: 0.594



Preface


Introduction: Objectivity, Science and Social Science



A Skewed Comparison



What Model of Science for Social Science?



What Model of Knowledge for Social Science?



What Model of Object for Social Science?



Anthropological Objects



From Positivism to Interpretivism



Anthropological Objects I: Cockfighting in Bali



Anthropological Objects II: Witchcraft in the Bocage



Anthropological Objects III: Nuer 'Sacrifice' and Txikao 'Couvade'



Complex Anthropological Objects



Sociological Objects



Received Paradigms



Against Prescriptive Assumptions: Indexical Social Objects



Sociological Objects: Stages of Research and Levels of Construction



A Classic Example: Suicide



Historical Objects



The Normative View: Explaining History by Hempelian Laws



'What' do Historians Explain?



Quantitative and Qualitative History: Samples of Research



Making History in Museums



Economic Objects



Economic Theory and Methodological Concern



Rhetorical Objects of Economic Practice



Realist Objects of Economic Practice



The 'Partial' Object of Economics



Geographical Objects



A Natural or a Social Science?



'Space and Place': Quantitative Reconstructions



'Space and Place': Qualitative Reconstructions



'Space and Place': Realist Reconstructions



The Possible Worlds of Human Geography


Notes


Bibliography


Index