Working knowledge : making the human sciences from Parsons to Kuhn /

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Isaac explores how influential thinkers in the mid-twentieth century understood the relations among science, knowledge, and the empirical study of human affairs. He places special emphasis on the practical, local manifestations of their complex theoretical ideas, particularly the institutional milie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Isaac, Joel, 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Harvard University > History.
Harvard University
Social sciences > Study and teaching > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Social sciences > Research > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Universities and colleges > Massachusetts > Cambridge > History.
Sciences sociales > Étude et enseignement > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Sciences sociales > Recherche > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Reference.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Social sciences > Research
Social sciences > Study and teaching
Universities and colleges
Massachusetts > Cambridge
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: crafting knowledge in the human sciences
  • The interstitial academy : Harvard and the rise of the American university
  • Making a case : the Harvard Pareto circle
  • What do the science-makers do? : migrations of operationism
  • Radical translation : W.V. Quine and the reception of logical empiricism
  • The levellers : Harvard's social scientists from World War to Cold War
  • Lessons of the revolution : history, sociology, and philosophy of science
  • Epilogue: the great disembedding
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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