Readings in methodology : African perspectives / edited by Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo, Carlos Cardoso.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ouédraogo, Jean-Bernard, 1958-

Cardoso, Carlos.

Codesria.

Series:

Codesria book series.

Codesria book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Research.

Social sciences.

Social sciences--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Dakar : Codesria, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the weaknesses of research in Africa is the little consideration that is given to questions of epistemology and methodology. What we see is the trivialization of research protocols which, consequently, are reduced to fantasy prescriptions that detach social studies from universal debates over the validity of science rather than an interrogation of research procedures induced by the complexity of social dynamics. As a result, social sciences have become an imitative discourse and a recital of exotic anecdotes without perspectives. Knowledge production therefore loses any heuristic bearin

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Questions of Method; PART ONE - SOCIAL REASONS FOR SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE; 1. Pragmatism as a Vision of the World and as a Method: A Philosophical Examination of the Challenges Presented to Contemporary Social Research by Subjective Idealism; 2. The Alchemis and the Apprentice Myth-Hunter, Comments on Social Engineering in African Social Sciences; PART TWO - LOGICS OF DISCOVERY; 3. An Introduction to the Epistemology of the Social Sciences

4. Reasons and Causes: Wittgenstein versus The Myth of Causal Explanation in the Social Sciences5. Scientific Logics and Methodologies; 6. Construction of the Subject as a Practice of Clarification of Social Relationships; PART THREE - CONTEXTUAL DETERMINATIONS; 7. Moroccan Sociology: Epistemological Preliminaries; 8. Autochthones Making their Realities Strange in Order to Better Understand Them; PART FOUR - TOOLS FOR INVESTIGATION; 9. Life History and the Writing of Ethnography: The Case of Morocco; 10. Audiovisual Instruments in Ethnographic Research

11. Establishing an Observation, Producing a Discourse, Illustrating Results Possibilities for the Photographic Tool12. Comparison: A foundational Approach in the Social Sciences; PART FIVE - WRITING AND RESEARCH; 13. Writing in the Social Sciences: From Field Notes to Scientific Reports; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-12742-2

9786613531308

2-86978-516-X

2-86978-515-1

2-86978-517-8

OCLC:

824114553