Science for Social Scientists

✍ Scribed by John Law, Peter Lodge (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 303
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-13
Classification....Pages 15-23
Inference....Pages 24-30
Networks....Pages 31-44
Links Between Classes: Economy and Coherence....Pages 45-53
Links Between Classes: Strength....Pages 54-61
Workability and Truth....Pages 62-72
Philosophies of Science and the Network Theory....Pages 73-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-86
The Acquisition of Social Coherence Conditions: Perception....Pages 87-96
The Acquisition of Social Coherence Conditions: Manipulation....Pages 97-103
The Acquisition of Social Coherence Conditions: Metaphor and Theory....Pages 104-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-123
Interests and Knowledge....Pages 125-133
Interests and the Growth of Knowledge....Pages 134-142
Negotiation, Persuasion and the Power of Knowledge....Pages 143-154
Scientific Socialisation and the Alignment of Networks....Pages 155-163
Normal Science and the Operation of Interests....Pages 164-170
Anomalies and Scientific Revolutions....Pages 171-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-187
The Social Structure of ‘Primitive’ Ideas: the Azande Poison Oracle....Pages 189-200
The Social Structure of Common Sense....Pages 201-206
The Social Structure of Ideology....Pages 207-222
Front Matter....Pages 183-187
The ‘Problem’ of Relativism....Pages 223-229
Science and Social Science....Pages 230-244
Self-confidence and the Redundancy of Philosophy....Pages 245-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-262
....Pages 263-297

✦ Subjects

Research Methodology