Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences II
This four-volume set of essays on the philosophical and
methodological debates in the social sciences, builds on Mark
Smiths highly successful first set of essays (SAGE 2005). This new
set draws together classic and contemporary material on key
debates, such as: the linguistic turn in social science; reformist
and transformist social science and discursive approaches to social
research.
Volume One: Language and Scientific Knowledge
Volume Two: Authentic, Relevant and Adequate Knowledge
Volume Three: Transformist Social Science: Feminism, Critical
Realism and Emancipatory Knowledge
Volume Four: Discursive Social Science
Table of contents:
VOLUME ONE: LANGUAGE AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
Introduction
PART ONE: THE FIRST LINGUISTIC TURN
Positivism and Realism - M Schlick
Languages and Protocol Language - R Carnap
Facts and Propositions - M Schlick
Meaning and Verification - M Schlick
PART TWO: EXPERIENCE, VERIFICATION AND EXPLANATION
Verifiability, Truth and Verification - E Nagel
Verification and Experience - A J Ayer
Verifiability and Meaning - A J Ayer
The Legacy of Hume and the Problem of Induction - A J Ayer
The Function of General Laws in History - C G Hempel
Explanation, Prediction and 'Imperfect' Knowledge - M
Brodbeck
Covering Law Explanations - C G Hempel
Studies in the Logic of Explanation - C G Hempel and P
Oppenheim
The Methodology of Positive Economics - M Friedman
Epistemology without a Knowing Subject - K Popper
PART TWO: LANGUAGE REVISITED
Performatives and Constatives - J L Austin
What Is a Speech Act? - J Searle
Extracts from /f003Patterns of Discovery - N Hanson
A Problem-Solving Approach to Scientific Progress - L Laudan
Language, Analysis and Theory in the Social Sciences - R J
Bernstein
Metaphor, Concept and Theory Change - C Norris
Deconstruction as Critical Ontology
VOLUME TWO: AUTHENTIC, RELEVANT AND ADEQUATE KNOWLEDGE
PART ONE: RELEVANCE, MEANING AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY
Science as a Vocation and The Meaning of Discipline - M Weber
Meaning and Subjectivity - W Outhwaite
Value Discourse and the Object of Inquiry - J R Hall
On Multiple Realities - A Sch[um]tz
Economics and Knowledge - F A Hayek
The Theory of Complex Phenomena - F A Hayek
On the Problem of Understanding Meaning - J Habermas
Methodological Problems of the Social Science - E Nagel
Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge - R K Merton
PART TWO: RESEARCH AND IMAGINATION
Models, Paradigms and the New Geography - P Haggett and R J
Chorley
Models, Description and Imagination in Geography - D Cosgrove
Geography and Historical-Hermeneutic Science - T Unwin
The Quest for Understanding
Polyarchic Civility and the State - M J Smith
Austrian Economics - L M Lachmann
A Hermeneutic Approach
PART THREE: RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF APPLICATION
Whose Side Are We on? - H Becker
Qualitative Methods - A J Vidich and S M Lyman
Their History in Sociology and Anthropology Research
The Globalization of Qualitative Research - P Alasuutari
Mode 2 in Context - M Jacob
The Contract Researcher, the University and the Knowledge
Society
Authenticity and Social Research - M J Smith
VOLUME THREE: TRANSFORMIST SOCIAL SCIENCE: FEMINISM, CRITICAL
REALISM AND EMANCIPATORY KNOWLEDGE
PART ONE: EMANCIPATION AND KNOWLEDGE
Technical, Practical and Emancipatory Interests - J Habermas
Realism and Critical Theory - W Outhwaite
Philosophies - R Bhaskar
When the Knower Is Also Known - R Harr[ac]e
Morphogenesis - M Archer
Explanation and Emancipation - A Collier
The Dialectic of Truth - R Bhaskar
PART TWO: THE MEANING OF REALIST RESEARCH
Economics without Experimentation - T Lawson
System, Lifeworld and Gender - A Sayer
Associational versus Counterfactual Thinking
Gender and Critical Realism - J Holmwood
A Critique of Sayer
Reply to Holmwood - A Sayer
Critical Realism and Semiosis - N Fairclough, B Jessop and A
Sayer
PART THREE: GENDER, CULTURE AND EMANCIPATION
What Is Feminist Epistemology? - S Harding
Feminism, Social Science and the Research Process - L Stanley and S
Wise
Feminist Ethnography - B Skeggs
Do People in Different Cultures Live in Different Worlds? - B
Fay
Against Eurocentred Epistemologies - R Kanth
A Critique of Science, Realism and Economics
Emancipation - Z Bauman
VOLUME FOUR: DISCURSIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE
PART ONE: DISCOURSE AND MODERN SUBJECTS
The Subject and Power - M Foucault
The Making of a Modern Subject and Beyond Modernity? Postmodern
Social Theory - T May
Critical Discourse Analysis - R Wodak
The Possibilities of a Postmodern Feminism - S J Hekman
The Cultural Politics of Difference - S J Smith
Do We Need Others to Be Ourselves? - B Fay
PART TWO: DISCURSIVE SOCIAL RESEARCH
Storytelling in Economics - D N McCloskey
Economy as Text - V Brown
Economics as a Postmodern Discourse - J Armariglio
Social Psychology as a Science - P F Secord
Does Postmodernism Mean the End of Science in the Behavioral
Sciences, and Does It Matter Anyway? - B Ryan
Theories of Consumption in Media Studies - D Morley
Tupperware - A J Clarke
Suburbia, Sociality and Mass Consumption
Spaces of Politics - D Massey
Post-Structuralism, Sovereign Power and Disciplinary Power - S R
Clegg
Towards a Postmodern Public Administration - R A W Rhodes
Epoch, Epistemology or Narrative?
The Expanding Field of the Sociology of the Body - B S Turner
PART THREE: RE-IMAGINING THE LANDSCAPE OF KNOWLEDGE
What about the Natural Sciences? - I Hacking
Territories of Knowledge - M J Smith
VOLUME ONE: LANGUAGE AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE Introduction PART ONE: THE FIRST LINGUISTIC TURN Positivism and Realism - M Schlick Languages and Protocol Language - R Carnap Facts and Propositions - M Schlick Meaning and Verification - M Schlick PART TWO: EXPERIENCE, VERIFICATION AND EXPLANATION Verifiability, Truth and Verification - E Nagel Verification and Experience - A J Ayer Verifiability and Meaning - A J Ayer The Legacy of Hume and the Problem of Induction - A J Ayer The Function of General Laws in History - C G Hempel Explanation, Prediction and 'Imperfect' Knowledge - M Brodbeck Covering Law Explanations - C G Hempel Studies in the Logic of Explanation - C G Hempel and P Oppenheim The Methodology of Positive Economics - M Friedman Epistemology without a Knowing Subject - K Popper PART TWO: LANGUAGE REVISITED Performatives and Constatives - J L Austin What Is a Speech Act? - J Searle Extracts from /f003Patterns of Discovery - N Hanson A Problem-Solving Approach to Scientific Progress - L Laudan Language, Analysis and Theory in the Social Sciences - R J Bernstein Metaphor, Concept and Theory Change - C Norris Deconstruction as Critical Ontology VOLUME TWO: AUTHENTIC, RELEVANT AND ADEQUATE KNOWLEDGE PART ONE: RELEVANCE, MEANING AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY Science as a Vocation and The Meaning of Discipline - M Weber Meaning and Subjectivity - W Outhwaite Value Discourse and the Object of Inquiry - J R Hall On Multiple Realities - A Sch[um]tz Economics and Knowledge - F A Hayek The Theory of Complex Phenomena - F A Hayek On the Problem of Understanding Meaning - J Habermas Methodological Problems of the Social Science - E Nagel Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge - R K Merton PART TWO: RESEARCH AND IMAGINATION Models, Paradigms and the New Geography - P Haggett and R J Chorley Models, Description and Imagination in Geography - D Cosgrove Geography and Historical-Hermeneutic Science - T Unwin The Quest for Understanding Polyarchic Civility and the State - M J Smith Austrian Economics - L M Lachmann A Hermeneutic Approach PART THREE: RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF APPLICATION Whose Side Are We on? - H Becker Qualitative Methods - A J Vidich and S M Lyman Their History in Sociology and Anthropology Research The Globalization of Qualitative Research - P Alasuutari Mode 2 in Context - M Jacob The Contract Researcher, the University and the Knowledge Society Authenticity and Social Research - M J Smith VOLUME THREE: TRANSFORMIST SOCIAL SCIENCE: FEMINISM, CRITICAL REALISM AND EMANCIPATORY KNOWLEDGE PART ONE: EMANCIPATION AND KNOWLEDGE Technical, Practical and Emancipatory Interests - J Habermas Realism and Critical Theory - W Outhwaite Philosophies - R Bhaskar When the Knower Is Also Known - R Harr[ac]e Morphogenesis - M Archer Explanation and Emancipation - A Collier The Dialectic of Truth - R Bhaskar PART TWO: THE MEANING OF REALIST RESEARCH Economics without Experimentation - T Lawson System, Lifeworld and Gender - A Sayer Associational versus Counterfactual Thinking Gender and Critical Realism - J Holmwood A Critique of Sayer Reply to Holmwood - A Sayer Critical Realism and Semiosis - N Fairclough, B Jessop and A Sayer PART THREE: GENDER, CULTURE AND EMANCIPATION What Is Feminist Epistemology? - S Harding Feminism, Social Science and the Research Process - L Stanley and S Wise Feminist Ethnography - B Skeggs Do People in Different Cultures Live in Different Worlds? - B Fay Against Eurocentred Epistemologies - R Kanth A Critique of Science, Realism and Economics Emancipation - Z Bauman VOLUME FOUR: DISCURSIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE PART ONE: DISCOURSE AND MODERN SUBJECTS The Subject and Power - M Foucault The Making of a Modern Subject and Beyond Modernity? Postmodern Social Theory - T May Critical Discourse Analysis - R Wodak The Possibilities of a Postmodern Feminism - S J Hekman The Cultural Politics of Difference - S J Smith Do We Need Others to Be Ourselves? - B Fay PART TWO: DISCURSIVE SOCIAL RESEARCH Storytelling in Economics - D N McCloskey Economy as Text - V Brown Economics as a Postmodern Discourse - J Armariglio Social Psychology as a Science - P F Secord Does Postmodernism Mean the End of Science in the Behavioral Sciences, and Does It Matter Anyway? - B Ryan Theories of Consumption in Media Studies - D Morley Tupperware - A J Clarke Suburbia, Sociality and Mass Consumption Spaces of Politics - D Massey Post-Structuralism, Sovereign Power and Disciplinary Power - S R Clegg Towards a Postmodern Public Administration - R A W Rhodes Epoch, Epistemology or Narrative? The Expanding Field of the Sociology of the Body - B S Turner PART THREE: RE-IMAGINING THE LANDSCAPE OF KNOWLEDGE What about the Natural Sciences? - I Hacking Territories of Knowledge - M J Smith
