Social Science in Question - Towards a Postdisciplinary Framework

Informationen zum Autor Mark J Smith is a Lecturer in Social Sciences at the Open University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Autori: Mark J Smith, Mark J J Smith, Mark J. Smith
• Editore: Sage Publications Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.09.1998
• EAN: 9780761960416
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-6041-6
• Pagine: 352
• Serie: Published in Association with the Open University; Challenge of the Social Scienc; Published in association with the Open University; Published in Association with; Challenge of the Social Scienc
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie