Methodological Misconceptions in the Social Sciences Rethinking Social Thought and Social Processes / by Angelo Fusari.

This book offers a systematic view of social analysis that will advance the communication of results between different academic disciplines. It overcomes misunderstandings that are due to the use of an unstructured variety of methodological traditions in the analysis of complex socioeconomic and pol...

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Main Author: Fusari, Angelo (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Theory
  • Chapter 1. Preliminary Considerations on the Method of Social Thought
  • Chapter 2. The Core of the Methodological Question: Procedure, Rules and Classifications
  • Chapter 3. Heterogeneity of Methods in Social Thought: Weakness or Strength - Is there a Synthesis
  • Chapter 4. Social Development and Historical Processes
  • Chapter 5. On the Dynamics of Societies: Is there a Universal Theory?
  • Part II. Some Applications
  • Chapter 6. About Anthropology
  • Chapter 7. Problems of Political Theory and Action
  • Chapter 8. The Foundations of Law: Juridical Objectivism versus Jus Naturalism and Juridical Positivism
  • Chapter 9. Some Insight on Sociological Thought: Rationality, Relativism and Social Evolution in Boudon-Weber's Cognitive Method
  • Chapter 10. Further Meditations on Ethics: Values in the Light of Religious Thought and its Opponents.