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The politics of method in the human sciences : positivism and its epistemological others / George Steinmetz, editor.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection Pre-2008 Archive Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Steinmetz, George, 1957-
Series:
Politics, history, and culture.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Politics, history, and culture
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Social sciences--Methodology.
Social sciences.
Positivism.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (634 p.)
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Collection of new essays on the past, present, and future of positivism in the various social sciences
Contents:
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.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-582) and index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
ISBN:
0-8223-8688-7
OCLC:
309932499

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