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How Does Social Science Work? - Reflections on Practice (Paperback, New edition)
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How Does Social Science Work? - Reflections on Practice (Paperback, New edition)
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The culmination of a lifetime spent in a variety of fields -
sociology, anthropology, economics, psychology, and philosophy of
science - -How Does Social Science Work? takes an innovative,
sometimes iconoclastic look at social scientists at work in many
disciplines. It describes how they investigate and the kinds of
truth they produce, illuminating the weaknesses and dangers
inherent in their research. At once an analysis, a critique, and a
synthesis, this major study begins by surveying philosophical
approaches to hermeneutics, to examine the question of how social
science ought to work. It illustrates many of its arguments with
untraditional examples, such as the reception of the work of the
political biographer Robert Caro to show the hermeneutical problems
of ethnographers. The major part of the book surveys sociological,
political, and psychological studies of social science to get a
rounded picture of how social science works, Paul Diesling warns
that \u201csocial science exists between two opposite kinds of
degeneration, a value-free professionalism that lives only for
publications that show off the latest techniques, and a deep social
concern that uses science for propaganda.\u201d He argues for
greater self-awareness and humility among social scientists,
although he notes that \u201csome social scientists . . . will
angrily reject the thought that their personality affects their
research in any way.\u201d This profound and sometimes witty book
will appeal to students and practitioners in the social sciences
who are ready to take a fresh look at their field. An extensive
bibliography provides a wealth of references across an array of
social science disciplines.
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