| Description |
620 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Politics, history, and culture
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Politics, history, and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-582) and index. |
| Contents |
Positivism and its others in the social sciences / George Steinmetz -- Part one: positivism and nonpositivism in twentieth-century social science -- Estrangement, intimacy and the objects of anthropology / Webb Keane -- The trick of words: Asian studies, translation, and the problems of knowledge / Michael Dutton -- Economists and the economy in the twentieth century / Timothy Mitchell -- How positivism made a pact with the postwar social sciences in the United States / Philip Mirowski -- The political unconscious of social and cultural history, or, confessions of a former quantitative historian / William H. Sewell Jr. -- Defining "theory" in postwar political science / Emily Hauptmann -- Beware Trojan horses bearing social capital: how privatization turned solidarity into a bowling team / Margaret R. Somers -- Scientific authority and the transition to post-Fordism: the plausibility of positivism in U.S. sociology since 1943 / George Steinmetz -- Part two: Alternatives to positivism in the human sciences -- Critical realism / Andrew Collier -- Negotiating with a positivist legacy: new social justice movements and a standpoint politics of method / Sandra Harding -- A perspective on modern economics / Tony Lawson -- The idea of outcome in U.S. sociology / Andrew Abbott -- Psychoanalysis and the theory of the subject / Anthony Elliot -- The real and the imaginary in economic methodology / Daniel Breslau -- Facts, values, and "real" numbers / Sophia Mihic, Stephen G. Engelmann and Elizabeth Rose Wingrove -- On your Marx: from cultural history to the history of society / Geoff Eley -- Provincializing the social sciences / Michael Burawoy |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Methodology.
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Social sciences -- Methodology. |
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Positivism.
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Positivism. |
| Indexed Term |
Human sciences |
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Positivism |
| Added Author |
Steinmetz, George, 1957-
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| ISBN |
0822335069 cloth alkaline paper |
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0822335182 paperback alkaline paper |
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0822335301 cloth alkaline paper |
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0822335425 paperback alkaline paper |
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