Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems

✍ Scribed by John Mingers, Leslie P. Willcocks

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 473
• Series: John Wiley Series in Information Systems
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As Information Systems matures as a discipline, there is a gradual move away from pure statistics towards consideration of alternative approaches and philosophies. This has not been incorporated into the literature of the field. Until now. Collecting major social theorists and philosophers into one volume, Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems provides a historical and critical analysis of each that is both authoritative and firmly focused on practical relevance to IS. The result is an insightful text for researchers, academics and students that will provide an up-to-date starting point for those considering alternative approaches.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 9
List of Contributors......Page 11
Series Preface......Page 15
Preface......Page 16
1 Thinking about Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems......Page 19
2 Fit for Function: Functionalism, Neofunctionalism and Information Systems......Page 45
3 Phenomenology, Screens, and the World: A Journey with Husserl and Heidegger into Phenomenology......Page 74
4 Hermeneutics in Information Systems Research......Page 121
5 Adorno: A Critical Theory for IS Research......Page 147
6 The Critical Social Theory of Jürgen Habermas and its Implications for IS Research......Page 175
7 Foucault, Power/Knowledge and Information Systems: Reconstructing the Present......Page 256
8 Structuration Theory and Information Systems: A Critical Reappraisal......Page 315
9 What We May Learn from the Social Shaping of Technology Approach......Page 347
10 Re-establishing the Real: Critical Realism and Information Systems......Page 390
11 Complexity and Information Systems......Page 425
C......Page 465
F......Page 467
G......Page 468
I......Page 469
N......Page 470
R......Page 471
S......Page 472
Z......Page 473