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The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
Steinmetz
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Description for The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
Paperback. Collection of new essays on the past, present, and future of positivism in the various social sciences Editor(s): Steinmetz, George. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 632 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 37. Weight in Grams: 858.
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often declared obsolete, positivism is alive and well in a number of the fields; in others, its influence is significantly diminished. The essays in this collection investigate its mutations in form and degree across the social science disciplines. Looking at methodological assumptions field by field, individual essays address anthropology, area studies, economics, history, the philosophy of science, political science and political theory, and sociology. Essayists trace disciplinary developments through the long twentieth century, focusing ... Read more
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often declared obsolete, positivism is alive and well in a number of the fields; in others, its influence is significantly diminished. The essays in this collection investigate its mutations in form and degree across the social science disciplines. Looking at methodological assumptions field by field, individual essays address anthropology, area studies, economics, history, the philosophy of science, political science and political theory, and sociology. Essayists trace disciplinary developments through the long twentieth century, focusing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
632
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Politics, History, & Culture
Condition
New
Weight
858g
Number of Pages
632
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822335184
SKU
V9780822335184
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About Steinmetz
George Steinmetz is Professor of Sociology and German Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Regulating the Social: The Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany and The Devil’s Handwriting: Ethnographic Discourse and “Native Policy” in the German Overseas Empire (Southwest Africa, Samoa, and Quingdao/China) (forthcoming) and the editor of State/Culture: State-Formation after the Cultural ... Read more
Reviews for The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
“By contrasting the diverse trajectories and strategies of positivist method within each discipline, The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences develops a comparative perspective which has been lacking in virtually all prior treatments of positivism in social science. The contrasts in the form and prestige that positivist method assumed in each discipline are striking.”—Craig Calhoun, President of the Social ... Read more