The Political Sciences Routledge Library Editions: Political Science vol 46

General Principles of Selection in Social Science and History
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-65257-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Political Science

Social science is a social activity as well as a method of discovery. The researchers’ values and politics colour their work and so do their choices of scientific method. This book is about both – the technical effects of values and the political effects of technique. The author reports what social scientists and historians actually do. He sorts out the scientific from the political content in a wide range of old and new work in history, sociology, political science and economics. The overall work is a detailed political and technical criticism of the ‘scientistic’ programme which would have researchers select for such qualities as objectivity, uniformity, and generality, cumulation and professional unanimity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stretton, Hugh (University of Adelaide, Australia)

Stretton, Hugh

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Use 1. Why Men Act 2. For example: Why did Chamberlain change his Mind? 3. Why Histories Happen 4. For example:What caused Imperialism? 5. A Model of Moralizing Science Part 2: Truth 6. Scientific Selection of Causes 7. Scientific Knowledge of Causes 8. Understanding 9. The Imagination of Effects Part 3: Truth in Use 10. Social Cohesion, Conflict and Change 11.Political Economy 12. Values in Practice and Theory 13. A Summary of Themes 14. A Political Science of Society

Über Autor(innen)

Hugh Stretton