The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences : Positivism and Its Epistemological Others /
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often declared obsolete, positivism is alive and well in a number of the fields; in others, its influence is si...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2005.
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- Positivism and Its Others in the Social Sciences / George Steinmetz
- Estrangement, Intimacy, and the Objects of Anthropology / Webb Keane
- Lead Us Not Into Translation: Notes toward a Theoretical Foundation for Asian studies / Michael Dutton
- Economists and the Economy in the Twentieth Century / Tim Mitchell
- How Positivism Made Pact with the Postwar Social Sciences in America / Philip Mirowski
- The Political Unconscious of Social and Cultural History, or, Confessions of a Former Quantitative Historian / Bill Sewell
- Defining "Theory" in Post-War Political Science / Emily Hauptmann
- Beware Trojan Horses bearing Social Capital: How Ideational Power Turned Gdansk into a Bowling Alley / Margaret R. Somers
- Scientific Authority and the Transition to Post-Fordism: The Plausibility of Positivism in American Sociology since 1945 / George Steinmetz
- Critical Realism / Andrew Collier
- Negotiating with the Positivist Legacy: New Social Justice Movements and a Standpoint Politics of Method / Sandra Harding
- A Perspective on Modern Economics / Tony Lawson
- The Idea of Outcome in American Sociology / Andrew Abbott
- Psychoanalysis and the Theory of the Subject / Anthony Elliott
- The Real and the Imaginary in Economic Methodology / Dan Breslau
- Facts, Values, and "Real" Numbers: Making Sense in and of Political Science / Sophia Mihic, Stephen Engelmann, and Elisabeth Wingrove
- On Your Marx: From Cultural History to the History of Society / Geoff Eley
- Provincializing the Social Sciences / Michael Burawoy.