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    (1 other version)Methodology of the Social Sciences.Felix Kaufmann - 1944 - Journal of Philosophy 41 (22):604-612.
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    Philosophy & methodology of the social sciences.Mark J. Smith (ed.) - 2005 - Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
    This is a comprehensive and authoritative reference collection in the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences. The source materials selected are drawn from debates within the natural sciences as well as social scientific practice. This four volume set covers the traditional literature on the philosophy of the social sciences, and the contemporary philosophical and methodological debates developing at the heart of the disciplinary and interdisciplinary groups in the social sciences. It (...)
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    The Methodology of the Social Sciences[REVIEW]E. N., Max Weber, Edward A. Shils & Henry A. Finch - 1951 - Journal of Philosophy 48 (1):25.
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    Methodology of the Social Sciences.Paul Hanly Furfey - 1945 - New Scholasticism 19 (3):251-253.
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    Nagel on the Methodology of the Social Sciences.Matthias Neuber - 2021 - In Matthias Neuber & Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds.), Ernest Nagel: Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity. Springer. pp. 215-232.
    Ernest Nagel was one of the first philosophers of science who reflected systematically on the methodology of the social sciences. His cooperation with Paul F. Lazarsfeld at Columbia University proved to be instructive in this regard. Moreover, Nagel stood in close contact with representatives of sociological functionalism and published, in 1956, a contribution on the prospects of a formalization of functionalism. In his seminal The Structure of Science from 1961, Nagel devoted two long chapters to methodological and (...)
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    Methodology of the Social Sciences[REVIEW]Joseph T. Clark - 1945 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 20 (1):185-188.
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    The Methodology of the Social Sciences[REVIEW]N. E. - 1951 - Journal of Philosophy 48 (1):25-25.
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    Methodology of the Social Sciences[REVIEW]Franz H. Mueller - 1945 - Modern Schoolman 23 (1):44-46.
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    (1 other version)On the Methodology of the Social Sciences: A Review Essay Part I.Toby E. Huff - 1981 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 11 (4):461-475.
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    (1 other version)On the Methodology of the Social Sciences: A Review Essay Part III.Toby E. Huff - 1982 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 12 (2):205-219.
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    Research Methodology in the Social Sciences: Perspectives on Sierra Leone.Emerson Abraham Jackson - 2020 - Mauritius: Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP).
    The thought about this book has been developed with the view of adding value to the teaching of Research Methodology for undergraduate and graduate students in developing economies like Sierra Leone. At the same time, it is a very useful tool for professionals engaged in research as part of their work life and for which their understanding of the dichotomy between Research Methods and Research Methodology needs to be addressed. It is divided into distinct sections, which makes it (...)
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    Methodology of the Social Sciences[REVIEW]Morton G. White - 1944 - Journal of Philosophy 41 (22):604-612.
  13. (1 other version)The Phenomenological Life-World Analysis and the Methodology of the Social Sciences.Thomas S. Eberle - 2010 - Human Studies 33 (2-3):123-139.
    This Alfred Schutz Memorial Lecture discusses the relationship between the phenomenological life-world analysis and the methodology of the social sciences, which was the central motive of Schutz’s work. I have set two major goals in this lecture. The first is to scrutinize the postulate of adequacy, as this postulate is the most crucial of Schutz’s methodological postulates. Max Weber devised the postulate ‘adequacy of meaning’ in analogy to the postulate of ‘causal adequacy’ (a concept used in jurisprudence) (...)
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    The methodology and philosophy of the social sciences: a selective bibliography of anthologies, 1950-1985.Johann Mouton - 1988 - Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council.
  15. aufmann's Methodology of the Social Sciences[REVIEW]Mcgill Mcgill - 1945 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 6:632.
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    Implications of the methodology of the physical sciences for the social sciences.Herold S. Stern - 1962 - Dialectica 16 (3):255-274.
    The attempt of modern social science to follow the methods of the physical sciences in seeking verification of its theories by statistical techniques is a result of an outmoded view of the methods of the physicist. The decisive element in verifying a theory is not the amassing of large bodies of data but insightful judgment into a relatively few cases. Because the will is primary in scientific activity, scientific statements, particularly those of social science, have the same (...)
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  17. The Significance of Methodology for the Social Sciences (Part II).Felix Kaufmann - forthcoming - Social Research: An International Quarterly.
  18. A critique of neohistoricism in contemporary west-German Bourgeois methodology of the social-sciences.M. Havelka - 1986 - Filosoficky Casopis 34 (1):74-89.
  19. A critique of the neoliberal and neoconservative concept of objectivity in the methodology of the social-sciences.Z. Javurek - 1985 - Filosoficky Casopis 33 (6):827-844.
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    On Methodological Problems of the Social Sciences.Josef Lukać - 1981 - Russian Studies in Philosophy 20 (3):78-91.
    It is common knowledge that problems of method have been exceptionally important in the history of science in modern times. Furthermore, their treatment with respect to the specifics of historical and social cognition has been intimately interwoven with interpretation of the fundamental questions of philosophy.
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    (1 other version)Methodological problems of the social sciences.Stephan Anguelov - 1984 - Studies in East European Thought 27 (3):263-265.
  22. On the Logic of the Social Sciences.Jürgen Habermas - 1997 - Human Studies 20 (4):413-428.
    James Bohman has succeeded in reinvigorating the old debate over explanation and understanding by situating it within contemporary discussions about sociological indeterminacy and complexity. I argue that Bohman's preference for a paradigm based on Habermas's theory of communicative action is justifiable given the explanatory deficiencies of ethnomethodological, rational choice, rule-based, and functionalist methodologies. Yet I do not share his belief that the paradigm is preferable to less formalized models of interpretation.
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    Rationality and the social sciences: contributions to the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences.Stanley I. Benn & G. W. Mortimore (eds.) - 1976 - London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
    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 (...)
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  24. Philosophy of the social sciences.Maurice Alexander Natanson - 1963 - New York,: Random House.
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    The Aesthetics of Research Methodologies in the Social Sciences.David E. W. Fenner - 2006 - International Journal of Applied Philosophy 20 (2):311-330.
    A strong parallel exists between current research methodologies in the social sciences and the two most central and popular approaches to aesthetics over the last four centuries. The point of this paper is to show this parallel, to demonstrate the importance and relevance of this parallel, and finally to examine ways of deciding, given this parallel between research methodologies and aesthetic approaches, which research methodology in a given context is the better.
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    (1 other version)On the Methodology of the Social Sciences: A Review Essay Part II. [REVIEW]Toby E. Huff - 1982 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 12 (1):81-94.
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    Evaluation of the social relevance of the Master 's of Science in Medical Humanities.Díaz Campos Norbis, Macías LLanes María Elena & Falcón Fariñas Irma Niurka - 2016 - Humanidades Médicas 16 (3):430-458.
    Un requisito para demostrar la vigencia de un programa de posgrado es la evaluación de su pertinencia social. El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo describir los resultados de la evaluación de la pertinencia social del programa de maestría Humanidades Médicas. Se muestran sus características esenciales derivadas de los procesos realizados en el Centro para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales y Humanísticas en Salud; se define la pertinencia social y sus indicadores como conceptos esenciales para la evaluación (...)
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  28. The philosophy of the social sciences: an introduction.Robert Bishop - 2007 - London: Continuum.
    This is the definitive companion to the study of the philosophy of the social sciences. It provides the student with an accessible, comprehensive and philosophically rigorous introduction to all the major philosophical concepts, issues and debates raised by the social sciences. Ideal for use in undergraduate courses, the structure and content of this textbook-the most thorough, clearly argued and up-to-date available-closely reflect the way the philosophy of the social sciences is studied and taught. The (...)
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    (2 other versions)Epistemology, Methodology and the Social Sciences.Alex C. Michalos - 1985 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 47 (1):157-157.
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    Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences: Analyzing Controversies in Social Research.Harold Kincaid - 1995 - Cambridge University Press.
    This 1996 book defends the prospects for a science of society. It argues that behind the diverse methods of the natural sciences lies a common core of scientific rationality that the social sciences can and sometimes do achieve. It also argues that good social science must be in part about large-scale social structures and processes and thus that methodological individualism is misguided. These theses are supported by a detailed discussion of actual social research, including (...)
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    On the Logic of the Social Sciences.Jürgen Habermas - 1990 - Polity.
    In this wide-ranging work, now available in paperback, Habermas presents his views on the nature of the social sciences and their distinctive methodology and concerns. He examines, among other things, the traditional division between the natural sciences and the social sciences; the characteristics of social action and the implications of theories of language for social enquiry; and the nature, tasks and limitations of hermeneutics. Habermas' analysis of these and other themes is, as (...)
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    Philosophy and methodology in the social sciences.Barry Hindess - 1977 - Hassocks: Harvester Press.
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    The Search for a Methodology of Social Science: Durkheim, Weber, and the Nineteenth-Century Problem of Cause, Probability, and Action.Stephen Turner - 1986 - Springer.
    Stephen Turner has explored the ongms of social science in this pioneering study of two nineteenth century themes: the search for laws of human social behavior, and the accumulation and analysis of the facts of such behavior through statistical inquiry. The disputes were vigorously argued; they were over questions of method, criteria of explanation, interpretations of probability, understandings of causation as such and of historical causation in particular, and time and again over the ways of using a natural (...)
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    (1 other version)Perspectivism: A Contribution to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences.Kenneth Smith - 2020 - New York, NY: The Bardwell Press.
    Perspectivism: A Contribution to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences advances the philosophy of perspectivism, showing how its capacity to assess competing views of a particular concept by approaching them as different 'sides' of a multi-dimensional object supports a concept of 'adequate' rather than 'absolute' truth. Presenting four case studies - of the social scientific concepts of power, equality, crime, and sex and gender - Smith demonstrates the manner in which the perspectivist approach does not take all (...)
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  35. Methodological Holism in the Social Sciences.Julie Zahle - 2016 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  36. Sociologizing metaphysics and mind: A pragmatist point of view on the methodology of the social sciences[REVIEW]Osmo Kivinen & Tero Piiroinen - 2007 - Human Studies 30 (2):97 - 114.
    There are realist philosophers and social scientists who believe in the indispensability of social ontology. However, we argue that certain pragmatist outlines for inquiry open more fruitful roads to empirical research than such ontologizing perspectives. The pragmatist conceptual tools in a Darwinian vein—concepts like action, habit, coping and community—are in a particularly stark contrast with, for instance, the Searlean and Chomskian metaphysics of human being. In particular, we bring Searle's realist philosophy of society and mind under critical survey (...)
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  37. (1 other version)Naturalism and the scientific status of the social sciences.Daniel Andler - 2009 - In M. Suàrez, M. Dorato & M. Rèdei (eds.), EPSA Epistemology and Methodology of Science: Launch of the European Philosophy of Science Association. Springer.
    situation in the sciences of man and show it to be fallacious. On the view to be 6 rejected, the sciences of man are undergoing the first serious attempt in history to 7 thoroughly naturalize their subject matter and thus to put an end to their separate sta- 8 tus. Progress has (on this view) been quite considerable in the disciplines in charge 9 of the individual, while in the social sciences the outcome of the process (...)
     
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    Peter Winch and the Autonomy of the Social Sciences.Jonas Ahlskog - 2022 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 52 (3):150-174.
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 150-174, June 2022. This article offers a reassessment of the main import of Peter Winch’s philosophy of the social sciences. Critics argue that Winch presented a flawed methodology for the social sciences, while his supporters deny that Winch’s work is about methodology at all. Contrary to both, the author argues that Winch deals with fundamental questions about methodology, and that there is (...)
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    Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling: With Applications for the Social Sciences.Eric Silverman - 2018 - Cham: Springer Verlag.
    This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain. The opening chapters take the reader on a tour through the development of simulation methodologies in the fields of artificial life and population biology, then demonstrates the growing popularity and relevance of these methods in the social sciences. Following an in-depth analysis of the potential impact of these methods on social science and social theory, the text provides (...)
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    The Entanglement of the Social Realm: Towards a Quantum Theory Inspired Ontology for the Social Sciences.Luk Van Langenhove - 2020 - Foundations of Science 26 (1):55-73.
    This paper presents the outline of an ontology of the social realm that aims to provide a new perspective to the study of social phenomena. It will be argued that in order to raise the impact of the social sciences, research should start from a new ontological discursive perspective. This implies that rather than dividing the social and psychological realm into different “disciplines”, the social and the psychological realm need to be imagined as two (...)
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  41. Mind and Society: Cognitive Science Meets the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. SYNTHESE Philosophy Library Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, & Philosophy of Science.Byron Kaldis (ed.) - forthcoming - Springer Science+Business.
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  42. Integration and the disunity of the social sciences.Christophe Heintz, Mathieu Charbonneau & Jay Fogelman - 2019 - In Michiru Nagatsu & Attilia Ruzzene (eds.), Contemporary Philosophy and Social Science: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. London: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 11-28.
    There is a plurality of theoretical approaches, methodological tools, and explanatory strategies in the social sciences. Different fields rely on different methods and explanatory tools even when they study the very same phenomena. We illustrate this plurality of the social sciences with the studies of crowds. We show how three different takes on crowd phenomena—psychology, rational choice theory, and network theory—can complement one another. We conclude that social scientists are better described as researchers endowed with (...)
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  43. Philosophy of the Social Sciences.David-Hillel Ruben - 1998 - In A. GraylingOxford University Press (ed.), Philosophy: A Guide Through the Subject vol. 2.
    Book synopsis: This is the first volume of a two-volume introduction to and guide through philosophy. It is intended to orientate, assist, and stimulate the reader at every stage in the study of the subject. Eleven extended essays have been specially commissioned from leading philosophers; each surveys a major area of the subject and offers an accessible but sophisticated account of the main debates. An extended introduction maps out the philosophical terrain and explains how the different subjects relate to each (...)
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    Brian Epstein, The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences. Reviewed by.James K. Swindler - 2016 - Philosophy in Review 36 (3):103-108.
    In The Ant Trap, Brian Epstein proposes a bold new systematic strategy for developing social ontology. He explores the history and current state of the art and provides pointed critiques of leading theories in the field. His framework, incompassing frames that provide principles for grounding social facts, is developed in some detail across a variety of social practices and applied to revealing real world as well as hyporthetical examples. If Epstein's account holds, it should provide new directions (...)
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    From the Characterization of ‘European Philosophy of Science’ to the Case of Philosophy of the Social Sciences.Wenceslao J. Gonzalez - 2015 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 29 (2):167-188.
    How distinct is European philosophy of science? The first step is to characterize what is or might be considered as ‘European philosophy of science’. The second is to analyse philosophy of the social sciences as a relevant case in the European contribution to philosophy of science. ‘European perspective’ requires some clarification, which can be done from two main angles: the historical approach and the thematic view. Thus, there are several structural and dynamic things to be considered in European (...)
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  46. On the Logic of the Social Sciences.Shierry Weber Nicholsen & Jerry A. Stark - 1991 - Ethics 101 (2):413-415.
    For two decades the German edition of this book has been a standard reference point for students of the philosophy of the social sciences in Germany. Today it still stands as a unique and masterful guide to the major problems and possibilities in this field.On the Logic of the Social Sciences foreshadowed the direction in which methodological discussions have traveled since it appeared and anticipated the problems they presently face. Habermas's statement of the principal issues is (...)
     
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    Rethinking the social sciences? A point of view.Luk van Langenhove - 2000 - Foundations of Science 5 (1):103-118.
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    A Rationalist Methodology for the Social Sciences.Paul A. Roth - 1989 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (1):104-108.
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    The Social Sciences of Quantification: From Politics of Large Numbers to Target-Driven Policies.Isabelle Bruno, Florence Jany-Catrice & Béatrice Touchelay (eds.) - 2016 - Cham: Springer Verlag.
    This book details how quantification can serve both as evidence and as an instrument of government, whether when dealing with statistics on employment, occupational health and economic governance, or when developing public management or target-driven policies. In the process, it presents a thought-provoking homage to Alain Desrosières, who pioneered ways to study large numbers and the politics underlying them. It opens with a summary of Desrosières's contributions to the field in which several generations of researchers detail how this statistician and (...)
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    On the Application of Marxist Social Science Methodology in the Study of Legal History.晓琰 纪 - 2023 - Advances in Philosophy 12 (6):1079-1083.
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