Social Science as Moral Inquiry

✍ Scribed by Norma Haan (editor); Robert N. Bellah (editor); Paul Rabinow (editor); William M. Sullivan (editor)

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 408
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Studies the social science of moral inquiry as an attempt to develop a psychology and sociology that would explain the complex in terms of the simple as the new physics was doing in the natural realm.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Disciplinary Critiques
1. Morality And The Social Sciences: A Durable Tension
2. Do the Social Sciences Have an Adequate Theory of Moral Development?
3. Humanism as Nihilism: The Bracketing of Truth and Seriousness in American Cultural Anthropology
4. Moral/Analytic Dilemmas Posed by the Intersection of Feminism and Social Science
5. Want Formation, Morality, and Some Interpretive Aspects of Economic Inquiry
6. History: Ethics, Science, and Fiction
Part II. Issues of Foundation
7. Method and Morality
8. Withering Norms: Deconstructing the Foundation of the Social Sciences
9. Beyond Interpretation: Human Agency and the Slovenly Wilderness
10. An Interactional Morality of Everyday Life
11. Interpretive Social Science vs. Hermeneuticism
Part III. Social Applications and Social Policy
12. Reflections on the Form and Content of Social Science: Toward a Consciously Political and Moral Social Science
13. Beyond Policy Science: The Social Sciences as Moral Sciences
14. Believing in Social Science: The Ethics and Epistemology of Public Opinion Research
15. Moral Commitment, Privatism, and Activism: Notes on a Research Program
16. The Ethical Aims of Social Inquiry
Index

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