Steinmetz / Adams The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences

Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8688-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 633 Seiten

Reihe: Politics, History, and Culture

Collection of new essays on the past, present, and future of positivism in the various social sciences

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steinmetz, George

Adams, Julia

Weitere Mitwirkende

Keane, Webb

Dutton, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Positivism and Its Others in the Social Sciences / George Steinmetz 1

Part One. Positivism and Nonpositivism in Twentieth-Century Social Science Anthropology

Estrangement, Intimacy, and the Objects of Anthropology / Webb Keane 59

Area Studies/Asian Studies

The Trick of Words: Asian Studies, Translation, and the Problems of Knowledge / Michael Dutton 89

Economics

Economists and the Economy in the Twentieth Century / Timothy Mitchell 126

Economics/Philosophy of Science

How Positivism Made a Pact with the Postwar Social Sciences in the United States / Philip Mirowski 142

History

The Political Unconscious of Social and Cultural History, or, Confessions of a Former Quantitative Historian / William H. Sewell Jr. 173

Political Science/Political Theory

Defining “Theory” in Postwar Political Science / Emily Hauptmann 207

Sociology and Economics

Beware Trojan Horses Bearing Social Capital: How Privatization Turned Solidarity into a Bowling Team / Margaret R. Somers 233

Sociology

Scientific Authority and the Transition to Post-Fordism: The Plausibility of Positivism in U. S. Sociology since 1945 / George Steinmetz 275

Part Two. Alternatives to Positivism in the Human Sciences

Philosophy and Critical Realism

Critical Realism / Andrew Collier 327

Philosophy and Standpoint Theory

Negotiating with a Positivist Legacy: New Social Justice Movements and a Standpoint Politics of Method / Sandra Harding 346

Economics and Critical Realism

A Perspective on Modern Economics / Tony Lawson 366

Process and Temporality in Sociology

The Idea of Outcome in U. S. Sociology / Andrew Abbott 393

Psychoanalysis as Critique

Psychoanalysis and the Theory of the Subject / Anthony Elliott 427

Sociology of Science

The Real and the Imaginary in Economic Methodology / Daniel Breslau 451

Making Sense In and Of Political Science

Facts, Values, and “Real” Numbers / Sophia Mihic, Stephen G. Engelmann, and Elizabeth Rose Wingrove 470

Being Undisciplined

On Your Marx: From Cultural History to the History of Society / Geoff Eley 496

Conclusion: Provincializing the Social Sciences / Michael Burawoy 508

References 527

Contributors 583

Index 587

Citation Index 607

Über Autor(innen)

George Steinmetz is Professor of Sociology and German Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Regulating the Social: The Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany and The Devil’s Handwriting: Ethnographic Discourse and “Native Policy” in the German Overseas Empire (Southwest Africa, Samoa, and Quingdao/China) (forthcoming) and the editor of State/Culture: State-Formation after the Cultural Turn.