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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... believed to be established . We human beings have an ordinary awareness of the world which serves as the basis for our responses and actions . This ordinary awareness is built up through interpretive schemes that are passed on to us ...
... believed to be established . We human beings have an ordinary awareness of the world which serves as the basis for our responses and actions . This ordinary awareness is built up through interpretive schemes that are passed on to us ...
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... believed that " pure expe- rience " must be recognized as the sole admissible source of knowl- edge . He proposed that we eliminate all the metaphysical ingredients that we import into experience through introjection . This could be ...
... believed that " pure expe- rience " must be recognized as the sole admissible source of knowl- edge . He proposed that we eliminate all the metaphysical ingredients that we import into experience through introjection . This could be ...
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... believed that these studies should address the fullness of human experience , including values and meaning in addition to perception . The struggle to understand and define the human realm shows through in their writings . They ...
... believed that these studies should address the fullness of human experience , including values and meaning in addition to perception . The struggle to understand and define the human realm shows through in their writings . They ...
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... believed that any given event could be studied by either kind of science . A mental event viewed from the perspective of physical causality — as an instance of the working of some general law - could be explained as a natural event ...
... believed that any given event could be studied by either kind of science . A mental event viewed from the perspective of physical causality — as an instance of the working of some general law - could be explained as a natural event ...
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... believed that values were contingent and subject to change and historical development . Georg Simmel , although included among the neo - Kantians , was not part of the Southwest school . He lived most of his life in Berlin , where his ...
... believed that values were contingent and subject to change and historical development . Georg Simmel , although included among the neo - Kantians , was not part of the Southwest school . He lived most of his life in Berlin , where his ...
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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activity analysis apodictic approach argument basic behavior believed causal cause certainty concept consciousness context cultural deductive system described developed Dilthey Dilthey's discourse empirical empiricism example experience explanation expressions function Hempel hermeneutic historical human action human phenomena human realm human science Humanistic Psychology hypothesis Ibid individual inductive inference instance interaction interpretation investigation Jürgen Habermas kind knowledge claims language game laws linguistic logical positivism logical positivists meaning mental events method methodology notion objects observation organizing particular patterns Paul Ricoeur Peirce perception person phenomenological Philosophy of Science physical sciences position positivists postpositivist problem proposed psychology question rational reality received view refer relationship Ricoeur scientific scientists sensation sense data social science statements Stephen Toulmin structures systems of inquiry teleological theory trans truth understanding University Press valid various Vienna circle whole Wilhelm Dilthey Wittgenstein words York