Objects of Social Science

In: Criminal Practice Ser.

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Objectivity, Science and Social Science -- 1. A Skewed Comparison -- 2. What Model of Science for Social Science? -- 3. What Model of Knowledge for Social Science? -- 4. What Model of Object for Social Science? -- Chapter One: Anthropological Objects -- 1. From Positivism to Interpretivism -- 2. Anthropological Objects I: Cockfighting in Bali -- 3. Anthropological Objects II: Witchcraft in the Bocage -- 4. Anthropological Objects III: Nuer 'Sacrifice' and Txikao 'Couvade' -- 5. Complex Anthropological Objects -- Chapter Two: Sociological Objects -- 1. Received Paradigms -- 2. Against Prescriptive Assumptions: Indexical Social Objects -- 3. Sociological Objects: Stages of Research and Levels of Construction -- 4. A Classic Example: Suicide -- Chapter Three: Historical Objects -- 1. The Normative View: Explaining History by Hempelian Laws -- 2. 'What' do Historians Explain? -- 3. Quantitative and Qualitative History: Samples of Research -- 4. Making History in Museums -- Chapter Four: Economic Objects -- 1. Economic Theory and Methodological Concern -- 2. Rhetorical Objects of Economic Practice -- 3. Realist Objects of Economic Practice -- 4. The 'Partial' Object of Economics -- Chapter Five: Geographical Objects -- 1. A Natural or a Social Science? -- 2. 'Space and Place': Quantitative Reconstructions -- 3. 'Space and Place': Qualitative Reconstructions -- 4. 'Space and Place': Realist Reconstructions -- 5. The Possible Worlds of Human Geography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.