Mapping Scientific Method

Disciplinary Narrations
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-27352-5
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

Reihe: Science and Technology Studies

This volume explores how the scientific method enters and determines the dominant methodologies of various modern academic disciplines. It highlights the ways in which practitioners from different disciplinary backgrounds –– the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences –– engage with the scientific method in their own disciplines.

The book maps the discourse (within each of the disciplines) that critiques the scientific method, from different social locations, in order to argue for more complex and nuanced approaches in methodology. It also investigates the connections between the method and the structures of power and domination which exist within these disciplines. In the process, it offers a new way of thinking about the philosophy of the scientific method.

Part of the Science and Technology Studies series, this volume is the first of its kind in the South Asian context to debate scientific methods and address questions by scholars based in the global south. It will be useful to students and practitioners of science, humanities, social sciences, philosophy of science, and philosophy of social science. Research scholars from these disciplines, especially those engaging in interdisciplinary research, will also benefit from this volume.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chadha, Gita

Thomas, Renny

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Method-o-logical Diversity: Seeking Disciplinary Narrations

Gita Chadha and Renny Thomas

Part I: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: HUMANITIES

Introduction to Part I

1. Methods in Substantivist Linguistics

Probal Dasgupta

2. 'If Not Precisely a Science': The Provocations of Literary Studies

Sharmila Sreekumar

3. Philosophy and Method

Sundar Sarukkai

Part II: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: NATURAL SCIENCES

Introduction to Part II

4. The Methods of Mathematics

Amber Habib

5. Questions of Method: The Philosophy and Practice of Modern Human Genetics

Chitra Kannabiran

6. Chemistry, Method, Science, and Society: A Conversation

Gita Chadha, Ram Ramaswamy and Renny Thomas

7. 'Between Clearing and Concealment': Knowledge-making in Physics

K. Sridhar

Part III: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: SOCIAL SCIENCES

Introduction to Part III

8. Decolonising Method: Where Do We Stand in Political Studies?

Aditya Nigam

9. Betwixt And Between?: Anthropology’s Engagement with the Sciences and Humanities

Kamala Ganesh

10. Economics, Feminist Economics, and Women’s Studies: Methodological Orientations and Disciplinary Boundaries

Neetha N.

11. Method, Object, and Praxis: Marx and the Historians of Science

Rahul Govind

12. Psychology in India: Knowledge, Method, Nation

Sabah Siddiqui

13. Geography in India: Gendered Concerns and Methodological Issues

Saraswati Raju

14. Beyond the Postcolonial: Speculations on the Indian Contemporary

Yasmeen Arif

15. Towards New Ecologies of Method: A Speculative Afterword

Sasheej Hegde

Über Autor(innen)

Gita Chadha is a faculty member at the Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, India. Her areas of academic interests are sociological theory, feminist epistemologies, feminist science studies and visual cultures. Her publications include Feminists and Science: Critiques and Perspectives in India, Vo 1 & 2 (2015, 2017) and Reimaging Sociology in India: Feminist Perspectives (2018).

 

Renny Thomas is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. He is the author of Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment (2022).