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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... Explanations 173 Explanations and Accounts of Human Action : Acausal Explanations 183 Explanations and Accounts of Human Action : Linguistic Accounts 192 Practical Reasoning 195 V 6 Existential - Phenomenological and Hermeneutic Systems ...
... Explanations 173 Explanations and Accounts of Human Action : Acausal Explanations 183 Explanations and Accounts of Human Action : Linguistic Accounts 192 Practical Reasoning 195 V 6 Existential - Phenomenological and Hermeneutic Systems ...
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... Data Concluding Remarks 201 203 215 237 241 242 258 279 Appendix : The Term " Human Science " 283 Notes 291 Bibliography 325 Index 343 Illustrations 1. Deductive Model of Argument and Explanation 2. Hempel's vi⚫ CONTENTS.
... Data Concluding Remarks 201 203 215 237 241 242 258 279 Appendix : The Term " Human Science " 283 Notes 291 Bibliography 325 Index 343 Illustrations 1. Deductive Model of Argument and Explanation 2. Hempel's vi⚫ CONTENTS.
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... Deductive Model of Argument and Explanation 2. Hempel's Network Model of Theories 3. Hypothetico - Deductive Testing of Theories 4. Gestalt Figures 75 85 87 114 Preface I teach at the Saybrook Institute of San Francisco vii.
... Deductive Model of Argument and Explanation 2. Hempel's Network Model of Theories 3. Hypothetico - Deductive Testing of Theories 4. Gestalt Figures 75 85 87 114 Preface I teach at the Saybrook Institute of San Francisco vii.
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... explanation and prediction . Research proposals calling for qualitative and nonexperimental de- signs that are based on teleological , reasonable , or descriptive ex- planatory models clearly do not meet the standard criteria for ac ...
... explanation and prediction . Research proposals calling for qualitative and nonexperimental de- signs that are based on teleological , reasonable , or descriptive ex- planatory models clearly do not meet the standard criteria for ac ...
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... reliability from their participation in a particular system of inquiry . Within one system of inquiry - for example , reason - explanation - interview methods are understood to provide a particular type of data INTRODUCTION 5 •
... reliability from their participation in a particular system of inquiry . Within one system of inquiry - for example , reason - explanation - interview methods are understood to provide a particular type of data INTRODUCTION 5 •
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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