The Flight From Reality In The Human Sciences
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Author |
: Ian Shapiro |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2009-02-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400826902 |
ISBN-13 |
: 140082690X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences by : Ian Shapiro
In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, scholars have fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from--and perpetuates--a flight from reality. In the method-driven academic culture we inhabit, argues Shapiro, researchers too often make display and refinement of their techniques the principal scholarly activity. The result is that they lose sight of the objects of their study. Pet theories and methodological blinders lead unwelcome facts to be ignored, sometimes not even perceived. The targets of Shapiro's critique include the law and economics movement, overzealous formal and statistical modeling, various reductive theories of human behavior, misguided conceptual analysis in political theory, and the Cambridge school of intellectual history. As an alternative to all of these, Shapiro makes a compelling case for problem-driven social research, rooted in a realist philosophy of science and an antireductionist view of social explanation. In the lucid--if biting--prose for which Shapiro is renowned, he explains why this requires greater critical attention to how problems are specified than is usually undertaken. He illustrates what is at stake for the study of power, democracy, law, and ideology, as well as in normative debates over rights, justice, freedom, virtue, and community. Shapiro answers many critics of his views along the way, securing his position as one of the distinctive social and political theorists of our time.
Author |
: John O'Shaughnessy |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2009-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135202255 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135202257 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Interpretation in Social Life, Social Science, and Marketing by : John O'Shaughnessy
This book analyzes the nature and role of interpretation in social interactions, decision making in social science enquiries and consumer marketing, in the use of statistics and causal analysis, in consumer evaluations of products and in interpreting problematic situations along side biases arising from the emotions.
Author |
: Yehuda Elkana |
Publisher |
: Central European University Press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2016-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789633860380 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9633860385 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis The University in the Twenty-first Century by : Yehuda Elkana
This volume addresses the broad spectrum of challenges confronting today?s universities. Elkana and Kl”pper question the very idea and purposes of universities, especially as viewed through curriculum?what is taught, and pedagogy?how it is taught. The reforms recommended in the book focus on undergraduate or bachelor degree programs in all areas of study, from the humanities and social sciences to the natural sciences, technical fields, as well as law, medicine, and other professions. The core thesis of this book rests on the emergence of a ?New Enlightenment. This will require a revolution in curriculum and teaching methods in order to translate the academic philosophy of global contextualism into universal practice or application. Are universities willing to revamp teaching in order to foster critical thinking that would serve students their entire lives? This book calls for universities to restructure administratively to become truly integrated, rather than remaining collections of autonomous agencies more committed to competition among themselves than cooperation in the larger interest of learning. ÿ
Author |
: Christina Hill |
Publisher |
: Lerner Publications TM |
Total Pages |
: 32 |
Release |
: 2022-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781728455365 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1728455367 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Real Science of Human Flight by : Christina Hill
Humans have always wanted to fly. Fictional heroes can do it with a leap and a bound! They may rescue someone falling from the sky, soar to the top of a tall building, or zip around the globe faster than a rocket. How do they get the job done, and how can humans do it themselves one day? Learn the real-life science behind the superpower and what scientists are doing to make that power a reality.
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Total Pages |
: 550 |
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: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X006197471 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
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Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015079781582 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Atlantis by :
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: Clarence Buford Carson |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 576 |
Release |
: 1969 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105034888789 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Flight from Reality by : Clarence Buford Carson
An updated version of material that appeared serially in the Freeman from 1964-66. Bibliographical footnotes.
Author |
: Albert J. Mills |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 608 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000068307585 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Encyclopedia of Case Study Research: L - Z by : Albert J. Mills
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Total Pages |
: 784 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015066043251 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Book Publishing Record by :
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: David Marsh |
Publisher |
: Palgrave |
Total Pages |
: 412 |
Release |
: 2010-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39076002966344 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theory and Methods in Political Science by : David Marsh
The systematically revised third edition of the leading text on approaches and methods in political science features a considerable internatizationization in both the team of contributors and the range of coverage and examples. About half the chapters are entirely new and the rest are substantially revised and updated.