Rationality and the Social Sciences (RLE Social Theory) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rationality and the Social Sciences (RLE Social Theory) write by S.I. Benn. This book was released on 2014-08-21. Rationality and the Social Sciences (RLE Social Theory) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 the explanatory and predictive power that a theory can draw from such concepts.
Rationality and the Social Sciences
Rationality and the Social Sciences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rationality and the Social Sciences write by Stanley I. Benn. This book was released on 2015. Rationality and the Social Sciences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 the explanatory and predictive power that a theory can draw from such concepts.
The Rational and the Social (RLE Social Theory)
The Rational and the Social (RLE Social Theory) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rational and the Social (RLE Social Theory) write by James Robert Brown. This book was released on 2014-08-21. The Rational and the Social (RLE Social Theory) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To paraphrase Marx, sociologists have only interpreted science; the point is to improve it. The Rational and the Social attempts both. It begins by sketching recent sociological approaches to science, notably the strong programme – Bloor’s ‘science of science’ and Barnes’s ‘finitism’ – and that of the ‘anthropologists in the lab’, Collins and Latour and Woolgar. The author argues that although sociological accounts are valuable in many respects, when morals are drawn about the structure and epistemology of science, they are badly flawed. In rejecting the sociological theory of science, it is not necessary to conclude that science develops without reference to the social. James Robert Brown argues for an alternative account. He proposes a novel way of viewing the history of science as a source of evidence for how to do good science and argues that the most important aspect of methodology is that it is comparative. Rival theories are evaluated by comparison and the contribution of the social to this process is inevitable and should be acknowledged. This is the challenge to science.
Choice, Rationality and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory)
Choice, Rationality and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Choice, Rationality and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory) write by Barry Hindess. This book was released on 2014-08-21. Choice, Rationality and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Choice, Rationality and Social Theory is a powerful rebuttal of the remarkably influential theories underlying 'rational choice analysis'. Rational choice analysis maintains that social life is principally to be explained as the outcome of rational choices on the part of individual actors. Adherents of this view include not only philosophers, political scientists and sociologists, but also prominent politicians in Western governments – notably of the United Kingdom and the United States. Rational choice analysis is said to be rigorous, capable of great technical sophistication, and able to generate powerful explanations on the basis of a few, relatively simple theoretical assumptions. Barry Hindess argues that the theory is seriously deficient, first, because there are important actors in the modern world other than human individuals, and second, because it says nothing about those processes of deliberation that play an important part in actors' decisions. The use of highly questionable assumptions about actors and their rationality has the effect of closing off important areas of intellectual inquiry and ignoring the reality of certain forms of thought and the social conditions on which they depend. These points are established through detailed examination of the concepts of the actor and of rationality – providing an overall argument that constitutes a serious challenge to any adherent of rational choice analysis.
Rationality and the Social Sciences (RLE Social Theory)
Rationality and the Social Sciences (RLE Social Theory) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rationality and the Social Sciences (RLE Social Theory) write by S.I. Benn. This book was released on 2014-08-21. Rationality and the Social Sciences (RLE Social Theory) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 the explanatory and predictive power that a theory can draw from such concepts.
