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Philosophy of Social Science: The Methods, Ideals and Politics of Social Inquiry

ISBN: 978-0-631-19042-4
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288 pages
December 1993, Wiley-Blackwell
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Introduction.

1. The Liberal Ideal.

2. Max Weber and the Methodology of the Social Sciences.

3. Theories of Development in Psychology and Political Science.

4. Functional Theories in Sociology and Biology.

5. Rational Choice Theories in Positive and Normative Economics.

6. Collecting Data in the Social Sciences.

7. Sorting Data into Kinds.

8. Explaining the Data.

9. The Fact/Vale Distinction.

10. Social Science and Perfectionism.

Bibliography.

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