How Does Social Science Work?: Reflections on Practice

by Paul Diesing

Book Overview

The culmination of a lifetime spent in a variety of fields - sociology, anthropology, economics, psychology, and philosophy of science - -How Does Social Science Work? takes an innovative, sometimes iconoclastic look at social scientists at work in many disciplines. It describes how they investigate and the kinds of truth they produce, illuminating the weaknesses and dangers inherent in their research. At once an analysis, a critique, and a synthesis,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822954753
• ISBN13: 9780822954750
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"