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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... field studies , interviews , and case studies are being included in the repertoire . Yet even these tools are not always adequate for solving the complex problems which need answers in our society . Merely pulling tools from the box ...
... field studies , interviews , and case studies are being included in the repertoire . Yet even these tools are not always adequate for solving the complex problems which need answers in our society . Merely pulling tools from the box ...
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... field settings are important tools for all researchers . In addition to these tools , which are usually included in the training of researchers in the human sciences , mention must be made of tools developed in linguistics , action ...
... field settings are important tools for all researchers . In addition to these tools , which are usually included in the training of researchers in the human sciences , mention must be made of tools developed in linguistics , action ...
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... field for a renewed debate about human science methodology . Giambattista Vico was an early eighteenth - century forerunner of the debate . The focus of the anti - positivist exposition was carried on in Germany from 1880 to 1920. The ...
... field for a renewed debate about human science methodology . Giambattista Vico was an early eighteenth - century forerunner of the debate . The focus of the anti - positivist exposition was carried on in Germany from 1880 to 1920. The ...
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... activity of sci- ence - even science that studies inanimate nature - is an expression of life , and as such it must be included in the subject matter of human science . Human science takes as its field of THE ORIGINAL DEBATE • 25.
... activity of sci- ence - even science that studies inanimate nature - is an expression of life , and as such it must be included in the subject matter of human science . Human science takes as its field of THE ORIGINAL DEBATE • 25.
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... field of study all of human life and all of life's expressions . Its goal is to understand the order that underlies the process of human existence , an order that provides the form for experience . Dilthey's " philosophy of life ...
... field of study all of human life and all of life's expressions . Its goal is to understand the order that underlies the process of human existence , an order that provides the form for experience . Dilthey's " philosophy of life ...
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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