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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... approach for the study of the human realm . Beginning in the 1860s , a loose combination of naturalism , empiricism , and pos- itivism was adopted by most researchers concerned with human phenomena as well as by those investigating the ...
... approach for the study of the human realm . Beginning in the 1860s , a loose combination of naturalism , empiricism , and pos- itivism was adopted by most researchers concerned with human phenomena as well as by those investigating the ...
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... approach to human phenomena . In The New Science , Vico resisted the trend by asserting that we can gain a true knowledge of human phenomena through the study of our history . We can understand history , he said , because we have made ...
... approach to human phenomena . In The New Science , Vico resisted the trend by asserting that we can gain a true knowledge of human phenomena through the study of our history . We can understand history , he said , because we have made ...
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... approach to the study of human nature ( an approach anticipating the structuralism developed much later by Lévi - Strauss ) . In recent years , Vico's work has become the subject of increasing study and has served , in fact , as a ...
... approach to the study of human nature ( an approach anticipating the structuralism developed much later by Lévi - Strauss ) . In recent years , Vico's work has become the subject of increasing study and has served , in fact , as a ...
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... approaches to phenomena . Windelband argued that the natural science approach aims at the construction of physical causality ... approach , by contrast , is individualizing ; it concentrates on the uniqueness of the event and attempts to ...
... approaches to phenomena . Windelband argued that the natural science approach aims at the construction of physical causality ... approach , by contrast , is individualizing ; it concentrates on the uniqueness of the event and attempts to ...
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... approach was opposed by Dilthey , who 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 ...
... approach was opposed by Dilthey , who 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 ...
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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