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 ethi...Daugiau...
Through case studies in sociology, economics and legal studies, this book advances new philosophical foundations for the methods of the social sciences, providing an account of how to establish or evaluate causal claims, and offering a new way of...Daugiau...
Bringing together two decades of work by the authors, this book shows how the concept of the dialogical network developed and outlines the key characteristics of dialogical networks, demonstrating the importance of historical contingency in our kn...Daugiau...
Through case studies in sociology, economics and legal studies, this book advances new philosophical foundations for the methods of the social sciences, providing an account of how to establish or evaluate causal claims, and offering a new way of...Daugiau...
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 conceptua...Daugiau...
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. Identif...Daugiau...
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...Daugiau...
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 metho...Daugiau...
This book highlights the recent re-emergence of Edward Westermarcks 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 fe...Daugiau...
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...Daugiau...
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...Daugiau...
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...Daugiau...
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...Daugiau...
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...Daugiau...
This book highlights the recent re-emergence of Edward Westermarcks 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 fe...Daugiau...
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...Daugiau...
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...Daugiau...
