Methodology for the Human Sciences: Systems of InquiryState University of New York Press, 1984 M06 30 - 364 pages Methodology for the Human Sciences addresses the growing need for a comprehensive textbook that surveys the emerging body of literature on human science research and clearly describes procedures and methods for carrying out new research strategies. It provides an overview of developing methods, describes their commonalities and variations, and contains practical information on how to implement strategies in the field. In it, Donald Polkinghorne calls for a renewal of debate over which methods are appropriate for the study of human beings, proposing that the results of the extensive changes in the philosophy of science since 1960 call for a reexamination of the original issues of this debate. The book traces the history of the deliberations from Mill and Dilthey to Hempel and logical positivism, examines recently developed systems of inquiry and their importance for the human sciences, and relates these systems to the practical problems of doing research on topics related to human experience. It discusses historical realism, systems and structures, phenomenology and hermeneutics, action theory, and the implications recent systems have for a revised human science methodology. |
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Page ix
... Dilthey . Our students , as well as students from neighboring schools , have asked for a book that would provide an overview of the human science approach in its present condition . This book is written primarily to serve those students ...
... Dilthey . Our students , as well as students from neighboring schools , have asked for a book that would provide an overview of the human science approach in its present condition . This book is written primarily to serve those students ...
Page x
... Dilthey wrote , but the argument that there is only one approach to science , first developed for the study of nature , has gained a clear victory over Dilthey's proposal . Thus psychology , sociology , economics , and anthropology have ...
... Dilthey wrote , but the argument that there is only one approach to science , first developed for the study of nature , has gained a clear victory over Dilthey's proposal . Thus psychology , sociology , economics , and anthropology have ...
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... Dilthey , Wilhelm Wundt , Franz Brentano , Edmund Husserl , Max Weber , and , in the United States , William James . Each approached various problems inherent in constructing a human science and focused on particular issues . As early ...
... Dilthey , Wilhelm Wundt , Franz Brentano , Edmund Husserl , Max Weber , and , in the United States , William James . Each approached various problems inherent in constructing a human science and focused on particular issues . As early ...
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... Dilthey's term human science and substituted for it the term culture science ( Kulturwissenschaft ) . Dilthey proposed that the object of study was the " lifeworld , " or experience . Rickert believed that this proposal emphasized the ...
... Dilthey's term human science and substituted for it the term culture science ( Kulturwissenschaft ) . Dilthey proposed that the object of study was the " lifeworld , " or experience . Rickert believed that this proposal emphasized the ...
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... Dilthey ( 1833-1911 ) Wilhelm Dilthey was the principal architect of the anti - positivist movement in human science . He agreed with the positivist position that the only real knowledge is rigorous scientific knowledge , and he ...
... Dilthey ( 1833-1911 ) Wilhelm Dilthey was the principal architect of the anti - positivist movement in human science . He agreed with the positivist position that the only real knowledge is rigorous scientific knowledge , and he ...
Contents
The Received View of Science | 59 |
Theoretical Networks | 71 |
The Human Sciences and the Deductive System of Inquiry | 87 |
Pragmatic Science | 93 |
Sciences as Expressions of Various | 103 |
Systems and Structures | 135 |
Human Action | 169 |
Linguistic Accounts | 192 |
ExistentialPhenomenological and Hermeneutic Systems | 201 |
Human Science Research | 241 |
Use of Linguistic Data | 258 |
Concluding Remarks | 279 |
Notes | 291 |
Bibliography | 325 |
Index | 343 |
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