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AbstractAlexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science hypothesizes that all intentional phenomena, including both psychological and social facts, are macroscopic quantum mechanical processes. Whether right or wrong, the suggestion highlights the fact that the social sciences, including IR, have until very recently never systematically discussed the potential relevance to our work of the quantum revolution a century ago. According to Wendt, that has left social scientists today – positivists and interpretivists alike – operating from an implicit and impoverished 19th century worldview that cannot accommodate important facts about human subjectivity. This symposium features critiques of Wendt's vision from multiple perspectives and a response, for one of the first airings of the classical-quantum debate in an IR context.

What are the social sciences? What unifies them? This essay collection seeks to answer these and other important questions as it considers how the field has developed over the years, from post-World War II to the present day throughout the world. Edited by Cyril Lemieux, Laurent Berger, Marielle Macé, Gildas Salmon, and Cécile Vidal, A History of the Social Sciences in 101 Books brings together a diverse range of researchers in the social sciences to present short essays on 101 books – both renowned and lesser known – that have shaped the field, from Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947) to Michel Aglietta's Money: 5000 Years of Debt and Power (2016). While there have been surveys and intellectual histories of particular disciplines within the social sciences (history, anthropology, sociology), until now there has been no intellectual history of the social sciences as a unified whole. Far from presenting a fixed and frozen canon, A History of the Social Sciences in 101 Books offers instead a moving, multiform landscape with no settled questions, only an ongoing series of new perspectives and challenges to previously established grounding.

This article of reflection problematizes the relationships between phenomenology and hermeneutics as epistemic places of research work through a documentary approach built in two phases. First, the text reflects on the terminological use present in the paradigms, approaches, epistemological perspectives, and research methods, thereby identifying that there is no criteria univocity in its references and approaches about research methodology treaties. Likewise, it is evident that there are methodological proposals that include phenomenology and hermeneutics in a complementary, articulated, or isolated way without allowing precise places of understanding that allow to locate their application in research. Based on the aforementioned, the second phase proposes an individual approach to the background and comprehensions of phenomenology and hermeneutics, identifying particularities that characterize them, possible theoretical-practical differences and approaches that can be established in view of their relevance from the epistemic and methodological framework of research in human and social sciences.
This article is a translation from the Spanish version "La hermenéutica y la fenomenología en la investigación en ciencias humanas y sociales", published in Civilizar, 19(37), 2019. doi: 10.22518/usergioa/jour/ccsh/2019.2/a09. The translation has been authorized and approved by the authors and the Editor.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction -- Preamble -- Towards a Criminology of Homicidal Poisoning -- Criminology -- Homicide -- Types of Homicide -- Motives -- Aims of the Book -- Scope of the Book -- Proposed Readers -- An Indication of Subsequent Chapters -- Features of the Book -- Moving on -- References -- 2 Instructive Poison Cases -- Introduction -- Roger and David Cooper, UK -- The Case -- Points of Special Interest -- Paul Marshall Curry, US -- The Case -- Points of Special Interest -- Dr. Harold Shipman, UK -- The Case -- Points of Special Interest -- Julia Lynn Turner, US -- The Case -- Points of Special Interest -- Lakvir Singh, UK -- The Case -- Points of Special Interest -- Kristin Rossum, US -- The Case -- Points of Special Interest -- Jessica Wongso. Australia and Indonesia -- The Case -- Points of Special Interest -- Conclusion -- Suggested Activity -- Reference -- 3 Criminal Poisoning in Theory -- Theories and Explanations -- Biological Theories of Crime -- Heredity and Genetics -- Brain Glucose Metabolism -- Neurotransmitters -- Brain Anomalies-The Amygdala -- Psychological Theories of Crime -- Developments in a Freudian Tradition -- Differential Association Theory and Differential Reinforcement Theory -- Eysenck's Theory of Crime -- Cognitive Theories of Crime -- Sociological Theories of Crime -- Functionalism -- Anomie -- Control Theory -- Rational Choice Theory -- Routine Activities Theory -- Chicago School -- Radical Criminology and Left Realism -- Labelling Theory -- Sub Culture -- Feminism -- Theories of Crime in Relation to Poisoning Homicide -- Biological Theories of Crime in Relation to Poisoning Homicide -- Psychological Theories of Crime in Relation to Poisoning Homicide -- Sociological Theories of Crime in Relation to Poisoning Homicide