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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... variables, such as suicide and some measure of social integration, the seasons, temperature, or the rate of mental illness could be treated as genuine laws, as examples of concomitant variations. Those relationships which fail to ...
... variables, such as suicide and some measure of social integration, the seasons, temperature, or the rate of mental illness could be treated as genuine laws, as examples of concomitant variations. Those relationships which fail to ...
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... variable can be spoken of as the cause of variation in the other, and the relation is not mathematical. They are evidently influenced by common causes, among which heredity, size of litter, and conditions which affect the health of the ...
... variable can be spoken of as the cause of variation in the other, and the relation is not mathematical. They are evidently influenced by common causes, among which heredity, size of litter, and conditions which affect the health of the ...
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... variables” such as prior distributions of demographic traits in sample populations that produce illusory relationships. Correlational analysis itself diminished in importance. The standard technology of card sorters lent itself to ...
... variables” such as prior distributions of demographic traits in sample populations that produce illusory relationships. Correlational analysis itself diminished in importance. The standard technology of card sorters lent itself to ...
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... variable of interest. The imperfections were then treated as measurement error, that is, as a well-understood problem of traditional statistics. Giddings did produce some interesting models of analysis, even at this primitive stage. The ...
... variable of interest. The imperfections were then treated as measurement error, that is, as a well-understood problem of traditional statistics. Giddings did produce some interesting models of analysis, even at this primitive stage. The ...
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... variable measured indirectly. The association was imperfect, but it confirmed and metricized a theoretical idea. By the twenties, with the infusion of Rockefeller Foundation money in support of the transformation of the social sciences ...
... variable measured indirectly. The association was imperfect, but it confirmed and metricized a theoretical idea. By the twenties, with the infusion of Rockefeller Foundation money in support of the transformation of the social sciences ...
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.
Page 56 - is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted.
Page 833 - our' problem is how to have simultaneously an account of radical historical contingency for all knowledge claims and knowing subjects, a critical practice for recognizing our own 'semiotic technologies' for making meanings, and a no-nonsense commitment to faithful accounts of a 'real...
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.
Page 256 - It is quite otherwise if the coexisting individuals are of different species or varieties. As they do not feed in the same manner, and do not lead the same kind of life, they do not disturb each other.
Page 144 - You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can not [sic two separate words] fool all the people all of the time...
Page 573 - Respect for differences between cultures is validated by the scientific fact that no technique of qualitatively evaluating cultures has been discovered.