Social Science in Question - Towards a Postdisciplinary Framework

This major text takes the reader on an intellectual journey starting with the story of modern science and the impact that this has had on social scientific practice, and going on to outline and critically review the major approaches to social scientific inquiry, ranging from positivism to postmodernism.

List of contents

Social Science as a Situated Practice
The Story of Science
The Emergence of the Social Sciences
Imagination and Complexity in the Social Sciences
Paradigms, Conventions and Relativism
Language, Discourse and Culture
Rethinking Representation in the Social Sciences
Situated Knowledges
Rethinking Knowledge and Reality

About the author

Mark J Smith is a Lecturer in Social Sciences at the Open University.

Product details

• Authors: Mark J Smith
• Publisher: Sage Publications UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.1998
• EAN: 9780761960409
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-6040-9
• No. of pages: 374
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 260 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 897 g
• Series: Published in association with the Open University
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)