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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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Otros Autores: Steinmetz, George, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.