Hermeneutic Philosophies Of Social Science

Author : Babette Babich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110551563

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Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science by Babette Babich Pdf

Hermeneutic philosophies of social science offer an approach to the philosophy of social science foregrounding the human subject and including attention to history as well as a methodological reflection on the notion of reflection, including the intrusions of distortions and prejudice. Hermeneutic philosophies of social science offer an explicit orientation to and concern with the subject of the human and social sciences. Hermeneutic philosophies of the social science represented in the present collection of essays draw inspiration from Gadamer’s work as well as from Paul Ricoeur in addition to Michel de Certeau and Michel Foucault among others. Special attention is given to Wilhelm Dilthey in addition to the broader phenomenological traditions of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger as well as the history of philosophy in Plato and Descartes. The volume is indispensible reading for students and scholars interested in epistemology, philosophy of science, social social studies of knowledge as well as social studies of technology.

Author : William Outhwaite
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349189465

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New Philosophies of Social Science: Realism, Hermeneutics and Critical Theory by William Outhwaite Pdf

The demise of empiricist philosophies of science has contributed to the current disarray of philosophy in the social sciences. This book argues that a realist analysis of the structures and processes which make up the social world can provide a way out of its present impasse. These processes, ranging from the interpersonal negotiation of meaning to the constraining influence of administrative or market structures, cannot be understood as mere constructs either in the minds of the theorist or of the social factors themselves, since they actually generate the social world as we know it. The author develops some implications of this approach and presents a realist view of some of the principal theoretical traditions and controversies within sociology and other social sciences.

Author : Yvonne Sherratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139448550

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Continental Philosophy of Social Science by Yvonne Sherratt Pdf

Continental Philosophy of Social Science demonstrates the unique and autonomous nature of the continental approach to social science and contrasts it with the Anglo-American tradition. Yvonne Sherratt argues for the importance of an historical understanding of the Continental tradition in order to appreciate its individual, humanist character. Examining the key traditions of hermeneutic, genealogy, and critical theory, and the texts of major thinkers such as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Derrida, Nietzsche, Foucault, the Early Frankfurt School and Habermas, she also contextualizes contemporary developments within strands of thought stemming back to Ancient Greece and Rome. Sherratt shows how these modes of thinking developed through medieval Christian thought into the Enlightenment and Romantic eras, before becoming mainstays of twentieth-century disciplines. Continental Philosophy of Social Science will serve as the essential textbook for courses in philosophy or social sciences.

Author : Austin Harrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135132859

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Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science by Austin Harrington Pdf

This book explores the writings of Gadamer and Habermas on hermeneutics and the methodology of the social sciences. By re-examining their views of earlier interpretive theorists, from Wilhelm Dilthey to Max Weber and Alfred Schutz, it offers a radical challenge to their idea of the 'dialogue' between researchers and their subjects.

Author : Delanty, Gerard
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335217212

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Social Science by Delanty, Gerard Pdf

What is social science? Does social scientific knowledge differ from other kinds of knowledge, such as the natural sciences and common sense? What is the relation between method and knowledge? This concise and accessible book provides a critical discussion and comprehensive overview of the major philosophical debates on the methodological foundations of the social sciences. From its origins in the sixteenth century when a new system of knowledge was created around the idea of modernity, the author shows how the philosophy of social science developed as a reflection on some of the central questions in modernity. Visions of modernity have been reflected in the self-understanding of the social sciences. From the positivist dispute on explanation vs. understanding to controversies about standpoint to debates about constructivism and realism, Delanty outlines the major shifts in the philosophy of social science. He argues that social science is an intellectual framework for the transformation of the social world. The new edition is updated and expanded throughout with the latest developments in the field, including a new chapter on feminist standpoint epistemology, and additional material on neo-positivism, pragmatism, and reflexivity. This is one of the most ambitious and wide-ranging texts in recent years on debates on method and the contemporary situation of social science. It is of interest to undergraduate students and postgraduates as well as to professional researchers with an interest in the philosophy of the social sciences and social theory.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136955532

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Hermeneutics and Social Science (Routledge Revivals) by Zygmunt Bauman Pdf

Originally published in 1978, this important work, by one of the leading European social theorists, is arguably the best introduction to the hermeneutic tradition as a whole. It is designed to help students of sociology and philosophy place the problems of "understanding social science" in their historical and philosophical context. It does so by presenting the major current in sociological thought as responses to the challenge of hermeneutics. The idea that true knowledge of social life can be attained only if human conduct is seen as meaningful action whose meaning is accordingly grasped has been presented as a discovery of recent sociology. In fact its history is long and its connections plentiful, reaching beyond the boundaries of sociology itself. Yet it is in sociology that the hermeneutic tradition has attracted most interest but most misinterpretation. The debate is in full swing and there is no attempt to offer "correct" solutions - the emphasis instead is upon revealing the strengths and weaknesses of each of the main approaches. However it is Bauman's view that the theory of understanding may achieve valid results only if it treats the problem of understanding as an aspect of the ongoing process of social life.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Hermeneutics.
ISBN : 075120045X

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Hermeneutics and Social Science by Zygmunt Bauman Pdf

This important work, by one of the leading European social theorists, is arguably the best introduction to the hermeneutic tradition as a whole. It is designed to help students of sociology and philosophy place the problems of understanding social science in their historical and philosophical context. It does so by presenting the major current in sociological thought as responses to the challenge of hermeneutics.

Author : William Outhwaite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:963527656

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New Philosophies of Social Science by William Outhwaite Pdf

Author : Janet Wolff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351621625

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Hermeneutic Philosophy and the Sociology of Art by Janet Wolff Pdf

This book, first published in 1975, is an examination of the theoretical foundation of the sociology of art and literature and an in-depth study in the sociology of knowledge. In discussing and clarifying some of the important philosophical issues in this field, the constant underlying reference is to the creative and artistic-expressive areas of knowledge – so that the better understanding of the social nature and genesis of all knowledge may point the way towards a similar comprehension of art and society.

Author : Mark Bevir,Jason Blakely
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198832942

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Interpretive Social Science by Mark Bevir,Jason Blakely Pdf

In this book Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely set out to make the most comprehensive case yet for an 'interpretive' or hermeneutic approach to the social sciences. Interpretive approaches are a major growth area in the social sciences today. This is because they offer a full-blown alternative to the behavioralism, institutionalism, rational choice, and other quasi-scientific approaches that dominate the study of human behavior. In addition to presenting a systematic case for interpretivism and a critique of scientism, Bevir and Blakely also propose their own uniquely 'anti-naturalist 'notion of an interpretive approach. This anti-naturalist framework encompasses the insights of philosophers ranging from Michel Foucault and Hans-Georg Gadamer to Charles Taylor and Ludwig Wittgenstein, while also resolving dilemmas that have plagued rival philosophical defenses of interpretivism. In addition, working social scientists are given detailed discussions of a distinctly interpretive approach to methods and empirical research. The book draws on the latest social science to cover everything from concept formation and empirical inquiry to ethics, democratic theory, and public policy. An anti-naturalist approach to interpretive social science offers nothing short of a sweeping paradigm shift in the study of human beings and society. This book will be of interest to all who seek a humanistic alternative to the scientism that overwhelms the study of human beings today.

Author : Gerard Delanty
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816631263

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Social Science by Gerard Delanty Pdf

It is argued that the conception of social science emerging today is one that involves a synthesis of radical constructivism and critical realism. The crucial challenge facing social science is a question of its public role: growing reflexivity in society has implications for the social production of knowledge and is bringing into question the separation of expert systems from other forms of knowledge.

Author : Paul Ricoeur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107144972

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Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences by Paul Ricoeur Pdf

John B. Thompson's collection of translated essays forms an illuminating introduction to Paul Ricoeur's prolific contributions to sociological theory.

Author : Yvonne Sherratt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Critical theory
ISBN : 0511311206

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Continental Philosophy of Social Science by Yvonne Sherratt Pdf

Continental Philosophy of Social Science demonstrates the unique and autonomous nature of the continental approach to social science and contrasts it with the Anglo-American tradition. Yvonne Sherratt argues for the importance of an historical understanding of the Continental tradition in order to appreciate its individual, humanist character. Examining the key traditions of hermeneutic, genealogy, and critical theory, and the texts of major thinkers such as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Derrida, Nietzsche, Foucault, the Early Frankfurt School and Habermas, she also contextualizes contemporary developments within strands of thought stemming back to Ancient Greece and Rome. Sherratt shows how these modes of thinking developed through medieval Christian thought into the Enlightenment and Romantic eras, before becoming mainstays of twentieth-century disciplines. Continental Philosophy of Social Science will serve as the essential textbook for courses in philosophy or social sciences.

Author : Robert P. Crease
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400900493

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Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences by Robert P. Crease Pdf

This remarkable volume attests to the world-wide development of a hermeneutical approach to the natural sciences. Questions raised by the essays include: What is a phenomenology of 'scientific' perception? How does meaning arise out of laboratory situations? How do individuals or groups come to terms with the particular problem situations in which they find themselves by drawing on the available conceptual and practical resources which structure these situations? The essays are organized around three central themes. One group of authors (Heelan, Kockelmans, and Gremmen/Jacobs) recalls and applies existing historical resources of hermeneutical phenomenology to current scientific and social issues. A second group (Kisiel, Eger) considers the differences between a specifically hermeneutical approach to science and related approaches such as cultural studies and social constructivism. A third group (Ihde, Gendlin) seeks to forge new directions and tools for understanding natural scientific practice. As Crease's introductory essay makes plain, the authors share the commitment of hermeneutical philosophy to the priority of meaning over technique, the primacy of the practical over the theoretical, and the priority of situation over abstract formulation. In the process, the authors revive and transform the ancient Greek idea that the key to living well, to being fully and authentically human, resides primarily in the exercise of the practical not the theoretical virtues, in the art of doing well in the workworld and acting well in the polis.

Author : Maurice Natanson
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Education
ISBN : 0810106167

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Phenomenology and the Social Sciences by Maurice Natanson Pdf

The idea of this anthology is to explore the relationships between phenomenology and the social sciences.