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The Search for a Methodology of Social Science - Durkheim, Weber, and the Nineteenth-Century Problem of Cause, Probability, and Action (Hardcover, 1986 ed.)
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The Search for a Methodology of Social Science - Durkheim, Weber, and the Nineteenth-Century Problem of Cause, Probability, and Action (Hardcover, 1986 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 92
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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
science model. From his careful elucidation of John Stuart Mill's
proposals for the methodology of the social sciences on to his
original analysis of the methodological claims and practices of
Emile Durkheim and Max Weber, Turner has beautifully traced the
conflict between statistical sociology and a science offactual
description on the one side, and causal laws and a science of
nomological explanation on the other. We see the works of Comte and
Quetelet, the critical observations of Herschel, Buckle, Venn and
Whewell, and the tough scepticism of Pearson, all of these as
essential to the works of the classical founders of sociology. With
Durkheim's essay on Suicide and Weber's monograph on The Protestant
Ethic, Turner provides both philosophical analysis to demonstrate
the continuing puzzles over cause and probability and also a
perceptive and wry account of just how the puzzles of our late
twentieth century are of a piece with theirs. The terms are still
familiar: reasons vs.
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