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Author : W. G. Runciman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 1969-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521074742
This 1969 study considers the relation of sociology to political philosophy and extends traditional political philosophy in the direction of contemporary developments.
Author : J. Gunnell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 12,82 MB
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230117589
This work is devoted to a critical analytical examination of the history, character, and conduct of contemporary academic political theory and to a reconsideration of significant elements of this field of inquiry from the perspective of the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317650646
The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' – i.e. from the middle years of the nineteenth century until the First World War – and have the aim of working out some of the implications of that encounter for the position and prospects of the social sciences today. The issues involved relate to the following series of problems: method and epistemology; social development and transformation; the origins of 'sociology' in nineteenth-century social theory; and the status of social science as critique. In each of these areas, Giddens develops views that challenge existing orthodoxies, and connects these ideas to a reconstruction of social theory in the contemporary era.
Author : Richard J. Bernstein
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 1978-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812277425
In this volume, Bernstein forsees and outlines the development of a social theory that is at once empirical, interpretive, and critical.
Author : Michael Vessuri, Hebe Kuhn
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3838208935
The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism that has been passed on the European approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; criticism of European social sciences by “subaltern” social sciences, their “talking back”, has become a frequent line of reflection in European social sciences. The re-labelling of the critique of the European approach to social sciences towards a critique from “Southern” social sciences of “Western” social sciences has somehow turned “Southern” as well as “Western” social sciences into competing contributors to the same “globalizing” social sciences. Both are no longer arguing about the European approach to social sciences but about which social thought from which part of the globe prevails. If the critique becomes a part of what it opposes, one might conclude that the European social sciences are very adaptable and capable of learning. One might, however, also raise the question whether there is anything wrong with the criticism of the European social sciences; or, for that matter, whether there is anything wrong with the European social sciences themselves. The contributions in this book discuss these questions from different angles: They revisit the mainstream critique of the European social sciences, and they suggest new arguments criticizing social science theories that may be found as often in the “Western” as in the “Southern” discourse.
Author : Alexander L. George
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2005-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262262894
The use of case studies to build and test theories in political science and the other social sciences has increased in recent years. Many scholars have argued that the social sciences rely too heavily on quantitative research and formal models and have attempted to develop and refine rigorous methods for using case studies. This text presents a comprehensive analysis of research methods using case studies and examines the place of case studies in social science methodology. It argues that case studies, statistical methods, and formal models are complementary rather than competitive. The book explains how to design case study research that will produce results useful to policymakers and emphasizes the importance of developing policy-relevant theories. It offers three major contributions to case study methodology: an emphasis on the importance of within-case analysis, a detailed discussion of process tracing, and development of the concept of typological theories. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences will be particularly useful to graduate students and scholars in social science methodology and the philosophy of science, as well as to those designing new research projects, and will contribute greatly to the broader debate about scientific methods.
Author : Walter Garrison Runciman
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 1971
Category :
ISBN : 9780317263862
Author : Jason Glynos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134138350
This book proposes a novel approach to practising social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social science explanation that avoids the problems of scientism and subjectivism by steering a careful course between lawlike explanations and thick descriptions. Drawing upon hermeneutics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and post-analytical philosophy, this new approach offers a particular set of logics – social, political and fantasmatic – with which to construct critical explanations of practices and regimes. While the first part of the book critically engages with lawlike, interpretivist and causal approaches to critical explanation, the second part elaborates an alternative grammar of concepts informed by an ontological stance rooted in poststructuralist theory. In developing this approach, a number of empirical cases are included to illustrate its basic concepts and logics, ranging from the apartheid regime in South Africa to recent changes in higher education. The book will be a valuable tool for scholars and researchers in a variety of related fields of study in the social sciences, especially the disciplines of political science and political theory, international relations, social theory, cultural studies, anthropology and philosophy.
Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745666566
Built upon a series of critical encounters with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought, this volume offers not only a challenging critique of major traditions of social and political analysis, but unique insights into the ideas which Giddens has developed over the past two decades.
Author : Brian Fay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317652282
This book examines the question of how our knowledge of social life affects, and ought to affect, our way of living it. In so doing, it critically discusses two epistemological models of social science – the positivist and the interpretive – from the viewpoint of the political theories which, it is argued, are implicit in these models; moreover, it proposes a third model – the critical – which is organised around an explicit account of the relation between social theory and practical life. The book has the special merit of being a good overview of the principal current ideas about the relation between social theory and political practice, as well as an attempt at providing a new and more satisfactory account of this relationship. To accomplish this task, it synthesises work from the analytic philosophy of social science with that of the neo-Marxism of the Frankfurt school.