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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Page 12
... objects of per- ception , knowledge derived from memory , knowledge of other minds , and inductive knowledge cannot stand up to the test of absolute certainty . Is there any ground that withstands the test and can thereby provide a base ...
... objects of per- ception , knowledge derived from memory , knowledge of other minds , and inductive knowledge cannot stand up to the test of absolute certainty . Is there any ground that withstands the test and can thereby provide a base ...
Page 15
... objects of study in the physical world and that they therefore require different methods . On the opposite side of the debate are those who hold that the methods of the natural sciences will work for all of the sciences . It is in this ...
... objects of study in the physical world and that they therefore require different methods . On the opposite side of the debate are those who hold that the methods of the natural sciences will work for all of the sciences . It is in this ...
Page 18
... objects may differ from one another , they are made up of the same colors , textures , shapes , sounds , and so ... object and one person calls the object " chair , " while the other calls it " stool . " According to Mach , the ...
... objects may differ from one another , they are made up of the same colors , textures , shapes , sounds , and so ... object and one person calls the object " chair , " while the other calls it " stool . " According to Mach , the ...
Page 23
... object approached from the idiographic perspective . The human sciences were not , then , distinguished by attending to a different realm , but by using the idiographic method . The use of this method allowed certain unique and human ...
... object approached from the idiographic perspective . The human sciences were not , then , distinguished by attending to a different realm , but by using the idiographic method . The use of this method allowed certain unique and human ...
Page 24
... objects of the world are constituted in different forms ; for example , a painting can be experienced as beautiful and simultaneously can be revered as an object of worship . Simmel focused on the structuring activity of the agent in ...
... objects of the world are constituted in different forms ; for example , a painting can be experienced as beautiful and simultaneously can be revered as an object of worship . Simmel focused on the structuring activity of the agent in ...
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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