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