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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Systems of Inquiry Donald E. Polkinghorne. Methodology for the Human Sciences This One 9690-3YF - GJ30 SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology Richard D. Mann.
Systems of Inquiry Donald E. Polkinghorne. Methodology for the Human Sciences This One 9690-3YF - GJ30 SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology Richard D. Mann.
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Systems of Inquiry Donald E. Polkinghorne. SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology Richard D. Mann and Jean B. Mann , Editors Methodology for the Human Sciences SYSTEMS OF INQUIRY Donald Polkinghorne.
Systems of Inquiry Donald E. Polkinghorne. SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology Richard D. Mann and Jean B. Mann , Editors Methodology for the Human Sciences SYSTEMS OF INQUIRY Donald Polkinghorne.
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... Psychology - Methodology . 2. Psychological research . I. Title . II . Series . BF38.5.P64 1983 300'.72 ISBN 0-87395-663 - X ISBN 0-87395-664-8 ( pbk . ) 82-5895 AACR2 Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1 The Original ...
... Psychology - Methodology . 2. Psychological research . I. Title . II . Series . BF38.5.P64 1983 300'.72 ISBN 0-87395-663 - X ISBN 0-87395-664-8 ( pbk . ) 82-5895 AACR2 Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1 The Original ...
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... psychology , sociology , economics , and anthropology have adopted the methods of the natural sciences for themselves . The disciplinary journals , textbooks , and dissertation standards reflect the victory of the single - science point ...
... psychology , sociology , economics , and anthropology have adopted the methods of the natural sciences for themselves . The disciplinary journals , textbooks , and dissertation standards reflect the victory of the single - science point ...
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... Psychology as a Human Science ( 1970 ) and Anthony Giddens's New Rules of Sociological Method ( 1976 ) .2 Methodology as Problem Solving Researchers are problem - solvers . The questions they are concerned with are questions of how to ...
... Psychology as a Human Science ( 1970 ) and Anthony Giddens's New Rules of Sociological Method ( 1976 ) .2 Methodology as Problem Solving Researchers are problem - solvers . The questions they are concerned with are questions of how to ...
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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