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Social Knowledge - An Essay on the Nature and Limits of Social Science (Paperback)
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Social Knowledge - An Essay on the Nature and Limits of Social Science (Paperback)
Series: Historical Materialism
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How is scientific knowledge of social life possible? If there are
social sciences, must they employ methods different from those of
the natural sciences? In Social Knowledge, Paul Mattick argues that
the well-known difficulties of the social sciences -- in particular
the predictive and explanatory failures of economics -- are due not
to an inherent resistance of social life to scientific explanation,
but to the failure of social scientists to include their own
categories of social explanation among the objects of scientific
study. Looking at Marx as an anthropological theorist, Mattick
compares his critique of political economy with Evans-Pritchard 's
analysis of Azande witchcraft. Just as the British anthropologist
attempted to explain Azande ideas and rituals in terms of their
place in native life, Marx wished to explain the continued faith in
economics -- despite its striking weakness as a science -- in terms
of the central role played by this system of ideas in the daily
lives of natives of capitalist society. This comparison leads to
the questions about the nature of scientific thinking and its
relation to our everyday knowledge of social reality that are the
subject of this book. Second edition, with a new Preface by the
author. The first edition was published in 1986 by Hutchinson, ISBN
9780091654603.
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