Author : Donald K. Sharpes
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739128121
This book charts the development of the main social sciences_religion, history, philosophy, law, sociology, anthropology, and economics_through an examination of the lives and works of each discipline's key historical figures.
Author : Peter Wagner
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 2001-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1446264513
Divided into two parts, this book examines the train of social theory from the 19th century, through to the ′organization of modernity′, in relation to ideas of social planning, and as contributors to the ′rationalistic revolution′ of the ′golden age′ of capitalism in the 1950s and 60s. Part two examines key concepts in the social sciences. It begins with some of the broadest concepts used by social scientists: choice, decision, action and institution and moves on to examine the ′collectivist alternative′: the concepts of society, culture and polity, which are often dismissed as untenable by postmodernists today. This is a major contribution to contemporary social theory and provides a host of essential insights into the task of social science today.
Author : Roger E. Backhouse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 2010-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107717779
This compact volume covers the main developments in the social sciences since the Second World War. Chapters on economics, human geography, political science, psychology, social anthropology, and sociology will interest anyone wanting short, accessible histories of those disciplines, all written by experts in the relevant field; they will also make it easy for readers to make comparisons between disciplines. A final chapter proposes a blueprint for a history of the social sciences as a whole. Whereas most of the existing literature considers the social sciences in isolation from one other, this volume shows that they have much in common; for example, they have responded to common problems using overlapping methods, and cross-disciplinary activities have been widespread.
Author : Mark Solovey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262358751
How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the early Cold War years, the U.S. government established the National Science Foundation (NSF), a civilian agency that soon became widely known for its dedication to supporting first-rate science. The agency's 1950 enabling legislation made no mention of the social sciences, although it included a vague reference to "other sciences." Nevertheless, as Mark Solovey shows in this book, the NSF also soon became a major--albeit controversial--source of public funding for them.
Author : Alexander L. George
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2005-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262262894
The use of case studies to build and test theories in political science and the other social sciences has increased in recent years. Many scholars have argued that the social sciences rely too heavily on quantitative research and formal models and have attempted to develop and refine rigorous methods for using case studies. This text presents a comprehensive analysis of research methods using case studies and examines the place of case studies in social science methodology. It argues that case studies, statistical methods, and formal models are complementary rather than competitive. The book explains how to design case study research that will produce results useful to policymakers and emphasizes the importance of developing policy-relevant theories. It offers three major contributions to case study methodology: an emphasis on the importance of within-case analysis, a detailed discussion of process tracing, and development of the concept of typological theories. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences will be particularly useful to graduate students and scholars in social science methodology and the philosophy of science, as well as to those designing new research projects, and will contribute greatly to the broader debate about scientific methods.
Author : E. F. Schumacher
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 1978-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0060906111
The author of the world wide best-seller, Small Is Beautiful, now tackles the subject of Man, the World, and the Meaning of Living. Schumacher writes about man's relation to the world. man has obligations -- to other men, to the earth, to progress and technology, but most importantly himself. If man can fulfill these obligations, then and only then can he enjoy a real relationship with the world, then and only then can he know the meaning of living. Schumacher says we need maps: a "map of knowledge" and a "map of living." The concern of the mapmaker--in this instance, Schumacher--is to find for everything it's proper place. Things out of place tend to get lost; they become invisible and there proper places end to be filled by other things that ought not be there at all and therefore serve to mislead. A Guide for the Perplexed teaches us to be our own map makers. This constantly surprising, always stimulating book will be welcomed by a large audience, including the many new fans who believe strongly in what Schumacher has to say.
Author : H. Scott Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134863071
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Frederick Cooper
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520209572
"This superb collection assembles a number of stimulating and theoretically current contributions by outstanding scholars."—Angelique Haugerud, author of The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya
Author : Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1108470971
A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.
Author : J. Heilbron
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401155283
This volume offers one of the first systematic analyses of the rise of modern social science. Contrary to the standard accounts of various social science disciplines, the essays in this volume demonstrate that modern social science actually emerged during the critical period between 1750 and 1850. It is shown that the social sciences were a crucial element in the conceptual and epistemic revolution, which parallelled and partly underpinned the political and economic transformations of the modern world. From a consistently comparative perspective, a group of internationally leading scholars takes up fundamental issues such as the role of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution in the shaping of the social sciences, the changing relationships between political theory and moral discourse, the profound transformation of philosophy, and the constitution of political economy and statistics.
