Philosophy and Method in the Social Sciences – serie
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Constitution of Social Practices
Häftad, 2019
750 kr
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Practices – specific, recurrent types of human action and activity – are perhaps the most fundamental "building blocks" of social reality. This book argues that the detailed empirical study of practices is essential to effective social-scientific inquiry. It develops a philosophical infrastructure …
Evolution, Human Behaviour and Morality
The Legacy of Westermarck
Av Olli Lagerspetz, Jan Antfolk m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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This book highlights the recent re-emergence of Edward Westermarck's work in modern approaches to morality and altruism, examining his importance as one of the founding fathers of anthropology and as a moral relativist, who identified our moral feelings with biologically-evolved retributive …
Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences
Av Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson
Inbunden, 2023
2504 kr
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This volume contends that Evidential Pluralism—an account of the epistemology of causation, which maintains that in order to establish a causal claim one needs to establish the existence of a correlation and the existence of a mechanism—can be fruitfully applied to the social sciences. Through case …
Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences
Av Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson
Häftad, 2024
689 kr
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This volume contends that Evidential Pluralism—an account of the epistemology of causation, which maintains that in order to establish a causal claim one needs to establish the existence of a correlation and the existence of a mechanism—can be fruitfully applied to the social sciences. Through case …
Problem of the State
Av Michael Mair
Häftad, 2023
646 kr
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The Problem of the State provides a new perspective on what the social and political sciences can contribute to understandings of the state and the ambivalent place it occupies in our collective affairs. Distinguishing two broad conceptual and methodological approaches to addressing the problem of …
Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory
Taking Concepts Seriously
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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Departing from a concern with certain ’hard’ problems in social theory and focusing instead on the theoretical strategies employed in their solution, especially on how these strategies depend on what the author calls the theoretical attitude towards language, this book considers whether these …
Dialogical Networks
Using the Past in Contemporary Research
Inbunden, 2022
2512 kr
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This book brings together two decades of work by the authors on dialogical networks, showing how the concept of the dialogical network developed through series of connected case studies and clarifying the concept through historical analysis. Identifying the key characteristics of dialogical …
Dialogical Networks
Using the Past in Contemporary Research
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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This book brings together two decades of work by the authors on dialogical networks, showing how the concept of the dialogical network developed through series of connected case studies and clarifying the concept through historical analysis. Identifying the key characteristics of dialogical …
Historical Understanding and Ethics in Social Science
Inbunden, 2025
2504 kr
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Can social scientific description capture the historically individual? Is the idea of an ethically committed social science morally defensible? This book offers a critical, historically-grounded perspective on these perennial methodological and ethical problems, in their current forms. It provides …
Historical Understanding and Ethics in Social Science
Häftad, 2026
704 kr
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Can social scientific description capture the historically individual? Is the idea of an ethically committed social science morally defensible? This book offers a critical, historically-grounded perspective on these perennial methodological and ethical problems, in their current forms. It provides …
Wittgenstein and Society
A Social Researcher Philosophises
Inbunden, 2026
2468 kr
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Building on the success of Wittgenstein and Society: Essays in Conceptual Puzzlement (2003), this freshly conceptualised second edition offers a unique perspective on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy by examining its implications through the lens of empirical social research.Gavin Kitching, an …
Wittgenstein and Society
A Social Researcher Philosophises
Häftad, 2026
637 kr
Kommande
Building on the success of Wittgenstein and Society: Essays in Conceptual Puzzlement (2003), this freshly conceptualised second edition offers a unique perspective on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy by examining its implications through the lens of empirical social research.Gavin Kitching, an …
Wittgenstein among the Sciences
Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method'
Av Rupert Read, Edited by Simon Summers
Häftad, 2016
849 kr
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Engaging with the question of the extent to which the so-called human, economic or social sciences are actually sciences, this book moves away from the search for a criterion or definition that will allow us to sharply distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific. Instead, the book favours …
Action at a Distance
Studies in the Practicalities of Executive Management
Av R.J. Anderson, W.W. Sharrock
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
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This book examines the nature of work and management, centring on documents as a class of management objects which have been relatively understudied in ethnomethodological research. Treating documents and similar artefacts as ordering devices, the authors describe consociation – the social …
Action at a Distance
Studies in the Practicalities of Executive Management
Av R.J. Anderson, W.W. Sharrock
Häftad, 2018
646 kr
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This book examines the nature of work and management, centring on documents as a class of management objects which have been relatively understudied in ethnomethodological research. Treating documents and similar artefacts as ordering devices, the authors describe consociation – the social …
Problem of the State
Av Michael Mair
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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The Problem of the State provides a new perspective on what the social and political sciences can contribute to understandings of the state and the ambivalent place it occupies in our collective affairs. Distinguishing two broad conceptual and methodological approaches to addressing the problem of …
Constitution of Social Practices
Inbunden, 2017
2512 kr
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Practices – specific, recurrent types of human action and activity – are perhaps the most fundamental "building blocks" of social reality. This book argues that the detailed empirical study of practices is essential to effective social-scientific inquiry. It develops a philosophical infrastructure …
Wittgenstein among the Sciences
Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method'
Av Rupert Read, Edited by Simon Summers
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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Engaging with the question of the extent to which the so-called human, economic or social sciences are actually sciences, this book moves away from the search for a criterion or definition that will allow us to sharply distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific. Instead, the book favours …
Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory
Taking Concepts Seriously
Inbunden, 2015
2504 kr
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Departing from a concern with certain ’hard’ problems in social theory and focusing instead on the theoretical strategies employed in their solution, especially on how these strategies depend on what the author calls the theoretical attitude towards language, this book considers whether these …
Evolution, Human Behaviour and Morality
The Legacy of Westermarck
Av Olli Lagerspetz, Jan Antfolk m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book highlights the recent re-emergence of Edward Westermarck's work in modern approaches to morality and altruism, examining his importance as one of the founding fathers of anthropology and as a moral relativist, who identified our moral feelings with biologically-evolved retributive …
