Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology: A Volume in the Handbook of the Philosophy of Science SeriesElsevier, 2011 M08 12 - 900 pages This volume concerns philosophical issues that arise from the practice of anthropology and sociology. The essays cover a wide range of issues, including traditional questions in the philosophy of social science as well as those specific to these disciplines. Authors attend to the historical development of the current debates and set the stage for future work. · Comprehensive survey of philosophical issues in anthropology and sociology· Historical discussion of important debates· Applications to current research in anthropology and sociology |
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... social science when a volume like this could cover the issues with half dozen essays. From the perspective of the ... social sciences, and particularly the philosophy of anthropology and sociology, is difficult. To a much greater extent ...
... social science when a volume like this could cover the issues with half dozen essays. From the perspective of the ... social sciences, and particularly the philosophy of anthropology and sociology, is difficult. To a much greater extent ...
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... scientific' future of the social sciences depends on their amenability to statistical methods” [1933, 100], which Ogburn, in a notorious episode, had caused to be engraved on the facade of the Social Science Building at the University ...
... scientific' future of the social sciences depends on their amenability to statistical methods” [1933, 100], which Ogburn, in a notorious episode, had caused to be engraved on the facade of the Social Science Building at the University ...
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... social science tended to be discussed in terms of German sources, notably Weber. Weber came to be discussed as a sociologist in the United States only after 1930. His methodological writings were translated only in 1949. Yet Weber had ...
... social science tended to be discussed in terms of German sources, notably Weber. Weber came to be discussed as a sociologist in the United States only after 1930. His methodological writings were translated only in 1949. Yet Weber had ...
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... social science. This desire to avoid tele- ological explanations was provoked by, among other things, a desire for a purely causal social science. Such a social science would not require for its completion a general account of human ...
... social science. This desire to avoid tele- ological explanations was provoked by, among other things, a desire for a purely causal social science. Such a social science would not require for its completion a general account of human ...
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... social science amounts to the admission that social science is fundamentally ideological and that all claims are true relative to ideological presuppositions. Popper, in a section on Mannheim in The Open Society and its Enemies ...
... social science amounts to the admission that social science is fundamentally ideological and that all claims are true relative to ideological presuppositions. Popper, in a section on Mannheim in The Open Society and its Enemies ...
Contents
Part II Individualism and Holism | 211 |
Part III Anthropology Culture and Interpretation | 397 |
Part IV Rationality and Normativity | 551 |
Part V Critical Approaches | 709 |
Index | 859 |
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Page 402 - Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
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Page 462 - Thus, the constructs of the social sciences are, so to speak, constructs of the second degree, namely constructs of the constructs made by the actors on the social scene, whose behavior the social scientist has to observe and to explain in accordance with the procedural rules of his science.
Page 462 - By a series of commonsense constructs they have pre-selected and pre-interpreted this world which they experience as the reality of their daily lives. It is these thought objects of theirs which determine their behavior by motivating it.
Page 766 - The knowing self is partial in all its guises, never finished, whole, simply there and original; it is always constructed and stitched together imperfectly, and therefore able to join with another, to see together without claiming to be another.
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Page 573 - Respect for differences between cultures is validated by the scientific fact that no technique of qualitatively evaluating cultures has been discovered.