Integrating the Human Sciences

Enhancing Progress and Coherence across the Social Sciences and Humanities
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-23017-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 307 g

What if we recognized that the human sciences collectively investigate a few dozen key phenomena that interact with each other? Can we imagine a human science that would seek to stitch its understandings of this system of phenomena into a coherent whole? If so, what would that look like?

This book argues that we are unlikely to develop one unified "theory of everything." Our collective understanding must then be a "map" of the myriad relationships within this large – but finite and manageable – system, coupled with detailed understandings of each causal link and of important subsystems. The book outlines such a map and shows that the pursuit of coherence – and a more successful human science enterprise – requires integration, recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of different methods and theory types, and the pursuit of terminological and presentational clarity. It explores how these inter-connected goals can be achieved in research, teaching, library classification, public policy, and university administration. These suggestions are congruent with, and yet enhance, other projects for reform of the human sciences.

This volume is aimed at any scholar or student who seeks to comprehend how what they study fits within a broader understanding.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szostak, Rick

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Research in Human Science 3. Connecting to Other Suggestions for Reform of the Human Sciences 4. Research in Human Science Fields 5. Teaching in Human Science 6. Reorganizing Our Libraries 7. Informing Public Policy 8. Administering Transformation; Transforming Administration 9. Concluding Remarks

Über Autor(innen)

Rick Szostak is Professor of Economics at the University of Alberta. He is the author of 20 books, 60 journal articles, and dozens of book chapters and encyclopedia articles across a dozen fields, especially economic history, world history, interdisciplinary studies, knowledge organization, and future studies.