Value Theory In Philosophy And Social Science Rle Social Theory

Author : James B. Wilbur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317650485

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Value Theory in Philosophy and Social Science (RLE Social Theory) by James B. Wilbur Pdf

The annual Conferences on Value Inquiry bring together philosophers, scientists and humanists to discuss the many facets of the problem of value in the experience of the individual and in contemporary society. One of the criteria in choosing papers for the Conference is the ability to stimulate discussion and clarification. The papers in the present volumes show deep concern with the problems and responsibilities in making choices of value.

Author : Ervin Laszlo,James B. Wilbur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1138787434

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Value Theory in Philosophy and Social Science (Rle Social Theory) by Ervin Laszlo,James B. Wilbur Pdf

The annual Conferences on Value Inquiry bring together philosophers, scientists and humanists to discuss the many facets of the problem of value in the experience of the individual and in contemporary society. One of the criteria in choosing papers for the Conference is the ability to stimulate discussion and clarification. The papers in the present volumes show deep concern with the problems and responsibilities in making choices of value.

Author : Ervin Laszlo,James Benjamin Wilbur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Values
ISBN : 066714160X

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Value Theory in Philosophy and Social Science by Ervin Laszlo,James Benjamin Wilbur Pdf

Author : S.I. Benn,G.W. Mortimore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317651277

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Rationality and the Social Sciences (RLE Social Theory) by S.I. Benn,G.W. Mortimore Pdf

The concepts of rationality that are used by social scientists in the formation of hypotheses, models and explanations are explored in this collection of original papers by a number of distinguished philosophers and social scientists. The aim of the book is to display the variety of the concepts used, to show the different roles they play in theories of very different kinds over a wide range of disciplines, including economics, sociology, psychology, political science and anthropology, and to assess the explanatory and predictive power that a theory can draw from such concepts.

Author : James B. Wilbur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317650492

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Value Theory in Philosophy and Social Science (RLE Social Theory) by James B. Wilbur Pdf

The annual Conferences on Value Inquiry bring together philosophers, scientists and humanists to discuss the many facets of the problem of value in the experience of the individual and in contemporary society. One of the criteria in choosing papers for the Conference is the ability to stimulate discussion and clarification. The papers in the present volumes show deep concern with the problems and responsibilities in making choices of value.

Author : Stanley I. Benn,G. W. Mortimore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1315763435

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Rationality and the Social Sciences by Stanley I. Benn,G. W. Mortimore Pdf

The concepts of rationality that are used by social scientists in the formation of hypotheses, models and explanations are explored in this collection of original papers by a number of distinguished philosophers and social scientists. The aim of the book is to display the variety of the concepts used, to show the different roles they play in theories of very different kinds over a wide range of disciplines, including economics, sociology, psychology, political science and anthropology, and to assess the explanatory and predictive power that a theory can draw from such concepts.

Author : Ted Benton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317651420

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Philosophical Foundations of the Three Sociologies (RLE Social Theory) by Ted Benton Pdf

An extended historical and philosophical argument, this book will be a valuable text for all students of the philosophy of the social sciences. It discusses the serious alternatives to positivist and empiricist accounts of the physical sciences, and poses the debate between naturalism and anti-naturalism in the social sciences in new terms. Recent materialist and realist philosophies of science make possible a defence of naturalism which does not make concessions to positivism and which recognizes the force of several of the anti-positivist arguments from the main anti-naturalist (neo-Kantian) tradition. The author presents a critical evaluation of empiricist and positivist theories of knowledge, and investigates some classic attempts at using them to provide the philosophical foundation for a scientific sociology. He takes the Kantian critique of empiricism as the starting point for the main anti-positivist and anti-naturalist philosophical approaches to the social studies. He goes on to investigate the inadequacy of post-Kantian arguments from Rickert, Weber, Winch and others, both against non-positivist forms of naturalism and as the possible source of a distinctive philosophical foundation for the social studies. The book concludes with a critical investigation of the Marxian tradition and an attempt to establish the possibility of a materialist and realist defence of the project of a natural science of history, which escapes the fundamental flaws of both positivist and neo-Kantian attempts at philosophical foundation.

Author : Brian Fay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317652298

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Social Theory and Political Practice (RLE Social Theory) by Brian Fay Pdf

This book examines the question of how our knowledge of social life affects, and ought to affect, our way of living it. In so doing, it critically discusses two epistemological models of social science – the positivist and the interpretive – from the viewpoint of the political theories which, it is argued, are implicit in these models; moreover, it proposes a third model – the critical – which is organised around an explicit account of the relation between social theory and practical life. The book has the special merit of being a good overview of the principal current ideas about the relation between social theory and political practice, as well as an attempt at providing a new and more satisfactory account of this relationship. To accomplish this task, it synthesises work from the analytic philosophy of social science with that of the neo-Marxism of the Frankfurt school.

Author : Maurice Duverger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000155891

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Introduction to the Social Sciences (RLE Social Theory) by Maurice Duverger Pdf

Professor Duverger at last provides the student with an overall view of the methodology of the social sciences. He briefly traces the origin of the notion of a social science, showing how it emerged from social philosophy. Its essential elements and pre-conditions are described; the splintering of social science into specialist disciplines is explained, and the need for a general sociology confirmed. The techniques of observation used by social scientists are dealt with in some detail and the unity of the social sciences is illustrated by examples of the universal application of these techniques. Documentary evidence in its various forms are described along with the basic analytical techniques, including quantitative methods and content analysis. Other methods of gathering information through polls, interviews, attitude scales and participant observation are all described. Professor Duverger brings together the different kinds of analysis used to assess the information thus gathered. Arguing that observing and theorizing are not two different stages or levels of research, he examines the practical value and difficulties of general sociological theories, partial theories and models and working hypotheses. He both describes and assesses the limitations of experiment and the scope of comparative methods in the social sciences. He then gives elementary instructions for using and assessing the value of mathematical techniques. The possibilities of presenting social phenomena through graphs and charts are also explored. There are useful book lists and diagrams.

Author : Abraham Edel
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1412823250

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Exploring Fact and Value by Abraham Edel Pdf

The great twentieth-century dichotomy that has pervaded moral philosophy and value theory on the one hand and social science and social theory on the other, concerns this volume. Part one approaches this dichotomy between fact (knowledge/science) and value (worth/morality) from different angles. It opens with a general study of the way value and fact are construed, then locates where scientific materials enter into ethics. Part two deals with issues of moral attitude and practical responsibility in the work of science and technology. Scientists' social responsibility as a function of changing social roles of science, and knowledge and responsibility in the professions are examined. In the concluding chapter Edel examines the dichotomy between fact and value as a social and an ideational phenomenon.

Author : Paul Streeten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136226939

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Value in Social Theory by Paul Streeten Pdf

This is Volume XXI of twenty-two in a series on Social Theory and Methodology. First published in 1958, this is a selection of essays on practical methodology when trying to answer the question of what are the new presuppositions of social thought which can do justice to the changes in social organisation. Mydral attempts to illustrate his repeated attempts to explore the logical, political and moral foundations of social thought and action, as he pursued diverse academic and political activities.

Author : Nancy Cartwright,Eleonora Montuschi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191030086

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Philosophy of Social Science by Nancy Cartwright,Eleonora Montuschi Pdf

This is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is designed both for students with central interests in philosophy and those planning to concentrate on the social sciences, and it presupposes no particular background in either domain. From the wide range of topics at the forefront of debate in philosophy of social science, the editors have chosen those which are representative of the most important and interesting contemporary work. A team of distinguished experts explore key aspects of the field such as social ontology (what are the things that social science studies?), objectivity, formal methods, measurement, and causal inference. Also included are chapters focused on notable subjects of social science research, such as well-being and climate change. Philosophy of Social Science provides a clear, accessible, and up-to-date guide to this fascinating field.

Author : Piotr Sztompka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317652588

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Agency and Structure (RLE Social Theory) by Piotr Sztompka Pdf

A striking feature of the human condition is its dual, contradictory, inherently split character; on the one hand, autonomy and freedom; on the other, constraint and dependence on social structure. This volume addresses this central problem of the linkage between human action and social structure in sociological and social science theory. Contributions cover several different approaches to the agency-structure problematic, and represent the work of a number of leading international sociologists. Their efforts point to a reorientation of social theory, both on philosophical and methodological levels.

Author : Russell Keat,John Urry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136839245

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Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals) by Russell Keat,John Urry Pdf

This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life. This book combines an evaluation of different conceptions of the nature of science with an examination of important sociological theorists and frameworks. This second edition of the work was originally published in 1982.

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317650645

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Studies in Social and Political Theory (RLE Social Theory) by Anthony Giddens Pdf

The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' – i.e. from the middle years of the nineteenth century until the First World War – and have the aim of working out some of the implications of that encounter for the position and prospects of the social sciences today. The issues involved relate to the following series of problems: method and epistemology; social development and transformation; the origins of 'sociology' in nineteenth-century social theory; and the status of social science as critique. In each of these areas, Giddens develops views that challenge existing orthodoxies, and connects these ideas to a reconstruction of social theory in the contemporary era.