Philosophy of anthropology and sociology /
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/North-Holland, 2007. |
| Description: | xv, 883 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Handbook of the philosophy of science |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6205827 |
Table of Contents:
- General Preface
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- I. Sociology and Quantification
- Defining a Discipline: Sociology and its Philosophical Problems, from Its Classics to 1945
- Measurement
- The Intersection of Philosophy and Theory Construction: The Problem of the Origin of Elements in a Theory
- Causal Models in the Social Sciences
- II. Individualism and Holism
- Functional Explanation and Evolutionary Social Science
- Evolutionary Explanations
- Holism and Supervenience
- Levels of the Social
- Rational Choice
- III. Anthropology, Culture and Interpretation
- Ethnography and Culture
- Categories and Classification in the Social Sciences
- Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Approaches
- The Origins of Ethnomethodology
- Philosophy of Archaeology; Philosophy in Archaeology
- IV. Rationality and Normativity
- Relativism and Historicism
- The Problem of Apparently Irrational Beliefs
- Language and Translation
- Practice Theory
- Naturalism without Fears
- V. Critical Approaches
- We, Heirs of Enlightenment: Critical Theory, Democracy, and Social Science
- Race in the Social Sciences
- Feminist Anthropology and Sociology: Issues for Social Science
- What's 'New' in the Sociology of Knowledge?
- Index