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Methodology of Social Sciences.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Checo |
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Prague :
Karolinum Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Specification of the Issue. The Subject of Social Sciences. The Issue of Commensurability and InIncommensurability of Social and Natural Sciences; 1.1 The Subject of Social Sciences; 1.2 The Issue of So-called Commensurability and Incommensurability, Respectively, Social and Natural Sciences; 1.3 The Subject as a Deciding Agent; 1.4 The Decision-making of a Subject under Various Information Conditions; 1.5 "Conceivable worlds" in social sciences; 2. Cognition of social reality.
- 2.1 Cognitive function of social sciences. Normative and non-normative view of social sciences on examined issues2.2 "Time" within reflection of social sciences. Historical time; 2.3 Issue of the meaning in history and the role of social sciences in its exposure; 2.4 Issue of causality in social sciences; 2.5 Society as a dynamic system. Idea of the "dynamic system" in social sciences and issue of causality in history; 3. Deductively and inductively formed theories; 3.1 Deductively formed theories in social sciences; 3.2 Deductive procedure in a normatively formed social theory.
- 3.3 Inductively formed social theory3.4 Deductively-inductively derived theoretical system; 4. Functions of terminology in scientific communication and the methods of defining terms in social sciences; 4.1 Issue of defining terms and their importance in scientific communication; 4.2 Classification of terms; 4.3 Most frequent methods of defining terms in sciences exploring social issues; 5. Scientific discourse and paradigm in social sciences. Explanation in social sciences; 5.1 Non-normative and normative discourse in social sciences; 5.2 Issue of paradigm in social sciences; 5.3 Explanation.
- 5.4 Explanation using the form of subsumption under the explanatory theory5.5 Explanation, prediction, post diction; 6. Narrative as a method of interpreting examined social events; 6.1 Narrative and discourse formations; 6.2 Role of a narrator in the narrative discourse; 6.3 Interpretative role of a narrator; 7. Customary dichotomy in social sciences and possible basis of its bridging; 7.1 Outline of a customary dichotomy in social sciences; 7.2 Explanatory concept of cause and interpretative concept of meaning; 7.3 Individualism versus "collectivism" in social sciences.
- 7.4 Idea of "homo economicus" as an example of ontological atomism and its modification in social sciences7.5 Social ("collectivist") conception of social evolution; Conclusions; Bibliography; Summary; Index.