{"product_id":"philosophy-of-the-social-sciences-9780745622477","title":"Philosophy of the Social Sciences","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* A comprehensive analysis of central perspectives in the philosophy of the social sciences.  * Places key writers in their social and political contexts, helping to make their ideas meaningful to students.  * Shows how these authors' views have practical uses in empirical research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Baert’s summary of influential perspectives in the history of social-scientific concept formation is very useful and can be recommended as a current brand-leader amongst textbooks in this field ... This book extends its scope beyond the provision of reliable summary and it leads theory forward in an engaged and productive direction.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBritish Journal of Socioliogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Patrick Baert has written another well argued and lucid introduction to methodological and theoretical problems in social research.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSociological Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Patrick Baert elegantly and skilfully demonstrates the continuities between philosophical and social scientific concerns in this field. This book contains both an outstanding critical discussion and a powerful argument for a pragmatist position.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWilliam Outhwaite\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Sussex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Baert’s thorough-going pragmatism is an enormously promising redirection of philosophical debate in and about the social sciences. This is an ambitious treatment of canonical figures whose philosophical reflection has been influential in the social science – Durkheim, Weber, Popper, the critical realists, Habermas, and several latter day pragmatists. Crucially, it is a treatment that exemplifies what Baert advocates: he contextualizes these theorists and their arguments, puts them in dialog with one another, and extracts philosophical lessons that not only bear on\u003cbr\u003e philosophical traditions of debate but that are consequential for social scientists as well. I recommend it to anyone, philosopher or social scientist, student or established professional, who thinks critically about the goals and assumptions of the social sciences.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlison Wylie,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Washington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. Emile Durkheim's naturalism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn uneasy relationship with positivism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow to be a proper sociologist.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApplication: the study of suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvaluation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. Max Weber's interpretative method.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranscending the Methodenstreit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdeal types and different types of action.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApplication: the Protestant Ethic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvaluation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. Karl Popper's falsificationism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat science is about.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe controversy with Kuhn.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow to make social science scientific.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe problem with historicism and utopianism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMethodological individualism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvaluation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. Critical realism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe realist bandwagon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRealism, reality and causality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreative scientists at work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributions to social theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApplication: British politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvaluation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. Critical Theory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Early Frankfurt School.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJürgen Habermas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6. Richard Rorty and Pragmatism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican pragmatism and Rorty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe myth of scientific method.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe new left and the cultural left.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvaluation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. A Pragmatist philosophy of the social sciences\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutline of a pragmatist view.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchaeology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory and social sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome concluding remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences and Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404351709527,"sku":"9780745622477","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/philosophy-of-the-social-sciences-9780745622477","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}