Social Science as Moral Inquiry

Published by Columbia University Press 1983

Social Science as Moral Inquiry

Edited by: Norma Haan , Robert N. Bellah , Paul Rabinow and William M. Sullivan

https://doi.org/10.7312/haan92854

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Studies the social science of moral inquiry as an attempt to develop a psychology and sociology that would explain the complex in terms of the simple as the new physics was doing in the natural realm.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Disciplinary Critiques
1. Morality And The Social Sciences: A Durable Tension Albert O. Hirschman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. Do the Social Sciences Have an Adequate Theory of Moral Development? Carol Gilligan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3. Humanism as Nihilism: The Bracketing of Truth and Seriousness in American Cultural Anthropology Paul Rabinow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4. Moral/Analytic Dilemmas Posed by the Intersection of Feminism and Social Science Michelle Z. Rosaldo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
5. Want Formation, Morality, and Some Interpretive Aspects of Economic Inquiry Michael S. McPherson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
6. History: Ethics, Science, and Fiction Michel de Certeau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Part II. Issues of Foundation
7. Method and Morality Richard Rorty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
8. Withering Norms: Deconstructing the Foundation of the Social Sciences Reiner Schürmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
9. Beyond Interpretation: Human Agency and the Slovenly Wilderness Stephen G. Salkever Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
10. An Interactional Morality of Everyday Life Norma Haan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
11. Interpretive Social Science vs. Hermeneuticism Jürgen Habermas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Part III. Social Applications and Social Policy
12. Reflections on the Form and Content of Social Science: Toward a Consciously Political and Moral Social Science Wolf-Dieter Narr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
13. Beyond Policy Science: The Social Sciences as Moral Sciences William M. Sullivan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
14. Believing in Social Science: The Ethics and Epistemology of Public Opinion Research Bruce Sievers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	320
15. Moral Commitment, Privatism, and Activism: Notes on a Research Program Richard Flacks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
16. The Ethical Aims of Social Inquiry Robert N. Bellah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	360
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 394

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Published: May 6, 2019
ISBN: 9780231890793