Gerard Delanty, Piet Strydom

PHILOSOPHIES OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of over sixty extracts from classic works on the philosophy of social science. It highlights the work of some of the influential authors who have shaped social science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Higher Education / Open University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 169mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 817g
• ISBN-13: 9780335208845
• ISBN-10: 0335208843
• Artikelnr.: 21312910

Autorenporträt

Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology in the University of Liverpool, UK. He was Visiting Professor at York University, Toronto in 1998, at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan in 2000, and he has taught at universities in Ireland, Germany and Italy. His books include Social Science: Beyond Constructivism and Realism (1997), Social Theory in a Changing World (1999), Modernity and Postmodernity: Knowledge, Power, the Self (2000), Challenging Knowledge: The University in the Knowledge Society (2002). Piet Strydom is Statutory Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Cork. He is a former founder-director of the Centre for European Social Research, Cork. Besides many articles on social theory and the philosophy of social science in anthologies and in such journals as Telos, Political Studies, Theory, Culture & Society, Philosophy and Social Criticism, European Journal of Social Theory, Current Sociology and Sociological Theory, books he has published include Discourse and Knowledge (2000), and Risk, Environment and Society (2002). He is currently writing a book on the new cognitive sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements INTRODUCTION What is the philosophy of social science? PART 1 Positivism, its dissolution and the emergence of post-empiricism Introduction: a general outline The selected texts 1 EMILE DURKHEIM What is a social fact? (1895) 2 OTTO NEURATH The scientific world conception (1929) 3 CARL G. HEMPEL Concept and theory in social science (1952) 4 ERNST NAGEL Methodological problems of the social sciences (1961) 5 KARL POPPER The problem of induction (1934) 6 RUDOLF CARNAP Confirmation, testing and meaning (1936) 7 TALCOTT PARSONS Theory and empirical fact (1937) 8 A.J. AYER The characterization of sense-data (1940) 9 W.V.O. QUINE Two dogmas of empiricism (1951) 10 LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Language games and meaning (1953) 11 STEPHEN TOULMIN The evolution of scientific ideas (1961) 12 THOMAS KUHN A role for history (1962) 13 IMRE LAKATOS Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes (1970) 14 PAUL FEYERABEND Against method (1975) PART 2 The interpretative tradition Introduction: a general outline The selected texts 15 WILHELM DILTHEY The development of hermeneutics (1900) 16 GEORG SIMMEL On the nature of historical understanding (1918) How is society possible? (1908) 17 MAX WEBER 'Objectivity' in social science (1904) 18 SIGMUND FREUD The dream-work (1900) A philosophy of life (1932) 19 ERNST CASSIRER From a critique of abstraction to relationalism (1910) 20 KARL MANNHEIM Competition as a cultural phenomenon (1929) 21 ALFRED SCHUTZ Concept and theory formation in the social sciences (1954) 22 MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY The philosopher and sociology (1960) 23 MARTIN HEIDEGGER The age of the world picture (1938) 24 PETER WINCH Philosophy and science (1958) 25 HANS-GEORG GADAMER Hermeneutical understanding (1960) 26 JÜRGEN HABERMAS The hermeneutic claim to universality (1973) 27 PAUL RICOEUR Towards a critical hermeneutic: hermeneutics and the critique of ideology (1973) 28 CHARLES TAYLOR Interpretation and the sciences of man (1971) 29 CLIFFORD GEERTZ The thick description of culture (1973) 30 AARON CICOUREL Method and measurement (1964) 31 HAROLD GARFINKEL Rational properties of scientific and common-sense activities (1960) 32 ERVING GOFFMAN Primary frameworks (1974) PART 3 The critical tradition Introduction: a general outline The selected texts 33 MAX HORKHEIMER Traditional and critical theory (1937) 34 HERBERT MARCUSE Philosophy and critical theory (1937) 35 THEODOR W. ADORNO Sociology and empirical research (1969) 36 JÜRGEN HABERMAS Knowledge and human interests (1965) The tasks of a critical theory (1981) 37 KARL-OTTO APEL Types of social science in light of human cognitive interests (1977) 38 ALBRECHT WELLMER Critical theory of society (1969) 39 ROBERTO MANGABEIRA UNGER The critical argument (1975) 40 ALVIN GOULDNER Towards a refiexive sociology (1970) PART 4 Pragmatism, semiotics and transcendental pragmatics Introduction: a general outline The selected texts 41 CHARLES S. PEIRCE A definition of pragmatic and pragmatism (1902) 42 JOHN DEWEY Social inquiry (1938) 43 CHARLES MORRIS Foundations of the theory of signs (1938) Pragmatics and semantics (1946) 44 C. WRIGHT MILLS Situated actions and vocabularies of motive (1940) 45 KARL-OTTO APEL Transcendental pragmatics (1979) PART 5 The structuralist controversy: language, discouse and practice Introduction: a general outline The selected texts 46 CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS Structural analysis in linguistics and in anthropology (1958) Language and the analysis of social laws (1951) 47 LUCIEN GOLDMANN The human sciences and philosophy (1966) 48 MICHEL FOUCAULT The order of things (1966) Power/knowledge (1976) 49 JACQUES DERRIDA Structure, sign and play in the discourses of the human sciences (1966) 50 PIERRE BOURDIEU The logic of practice (1980) PART 6 New directions and challenges Introduction: a general outline The s