History: Meaning and Method
Author : Donald V. Gawronski
Publisher : Scott Foresman
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 1967
Category : History
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Author : Donald V. Gawronski
Publisher : Scott Foresman
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 1967
Category : History
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Author : Isaac Reed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,29 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317256239
Culture is increasingly important to American social science, but in what way? This book addresses the core issues of the sociology of culture-questions about the social role of meaning, along with those about the methods sociologists use to study culture and society-in a manner that makes clear their relevance to sociology as a whole. Part I consists of essays by leading cultural sociologists on how the turn to culture has changed the sociological study of organizations, economic action, and television, and concludes with Georgina Born's methodological statement on the sociology of art and cultural production. Part II contains a highly original, and at times heated, debate between Richard Biernacki and John H. Evans on the appropriateness of abstract and quantifiable coding schemes for the sociological study of culture. Ranging from the philosophy of science to the concrete, practical problems of interpreting masses of cultural data, the debate raises the controversy over the interpretation of culture and the explanation of social action to a new level of sophistication.
Author : Meghan Sullivan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1984880322
Two Philosophers Ask and Answer the Big Questions About the Search for Faith and Happiness For seekers of all stripes, philosophy is timeless self-care. Notre Dame philosophy professors Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko have reinvigorated this tradition in their wildly popular and influential undergraduate course “God and the Good Life,” in which they wrestle with the big questions about how to live and what makes life meaningful. Now they invite us into the classroom to work through issues like what justifies our beliefs, whether we should practice a religion and what sacrifices we should make for others—as well as to investigate what figures such as Aristotle, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Iris Murdoch, and W. E. B. Du Bois have to say about how to live well. Sullivan and Blaschko do the timeless work of philosophy using real-world case studies that explore love, finance, truth, and more. In so doing, they push us to escape our own caves, ask stronger questions, explain our deepest goals, and wrestle with suffering, the nature of death, and the existence of God. Philosophers know that our “good life plan” is one that we as individuals need to be constantly and actively writing to achieve some meaningful control and sense of purpose even if the world keeps throwing surprises our way. For at least the past 2,500 years, philosophers have taught that goal-seeking is an essential part of what it is to be human—and crucially that we could find our own good life by asking better questions of ourselves and of one another. This virtue ethics approach resonates profoundly in our own moment. The Good Life Method is a winning guide to tackling the big questions of being human with the wisdom of the ages.
Author : Anders Nygren
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1606087703
A distinguished Scandinavian scholar has undertaken a fresh study of themes he examined in earlier writings. Meaning and Method contains the results of Nygren's lifetime of thought, addressed to the most fundamental concerns of philosophy and theology. In this book Anders Nygren delves into these and other questions: What is the meaning of meaning? What are we to do when one person declares meaningless what another finds supremely meaningful? Is there any way of knowing which is right? Can we arrive at a common understanding of what is meaningful? The author contends that contemporary philosophy does point to such a common understanding. Philosophy, as put forth by Nygren, involves a recognition of diverse contexts of meaning. Through philosophy we can also develop a method by which the validity of these contexts may be scientifically tested. Nygren shows that the debate about the meaningfulness of religious language is not insoluble. He further establishes the scientific status of the two disciplines concerned with religious language--theology and the philosophy of religion. The author's approach calls for drastic revision in these disciplines, and he indicates many new directions for future work in them. Students and specialists will be fascinated by Nygren's own account of the philosophical ideas undergirding his theological work. This book also makes a major contribution to today's questions in both philosophy and theology.
Author : George Boolos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 1990-10-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521360838
This volume is a report on the state of philosophy in a number of significant areas.
Author : Howard Schuman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674028272
Howard Schuman is one of the premier scholars of social surveys. His expertise concerns the way questions about attitudes and beliefs are worded and the effects questions have on the answers people give. However, Method and Meaning in Polls and Surveys is less about the substance of wording effects and more about approaches to interpreting the respondentâe(tm)s world, and how surveys can make that world understandableâe"though often in ways not anticipated by the researcher. Schuman examines the question-answer process that is basic to polls and surveys, as it is in so much of life. His concern is with the nature of questioning itself, with issues of validity and bias, and with the scope and limitations of meaning sought through polls and surveys. Writing with both wisdom and humor, Schuman considers the issues both at a theoretical level, bringing in ideas from other social sciences, and empirically with substantive research of his own and others. The book will be of interest to social scientists, to survey researchers in academia and business, and to all those concerned with the pervasive influence of polls in society.
Author : Paul A. Roth
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1501746219
Paul A Roth's book examines an important controversy in the philosophy of the social sciences that has developed since the demise of logical positivism and its conception of rationality. Roth contends that this controversy—a dispute over the canons of rationality—is the product of the mistaken belief in methodological exclusivism. Drawing on work in contemporary epistemology by W. V. O. Quine, Richard Rorty, and Paul Feyerabend, he argues that no single theory of human behavior has methodological priority; indeed, the existence of a plethora of theories for the study of human behavior, he believes, is an inevitable consequence of our epistemic situation.
Author : Richard M. Martin
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780873957229
Author : Michael West
Publisher :
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 1945
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Author : Earl W. Stevick
Publisher : Newbury House
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Foreign Language Study
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