Metatheory in Social Science: Pluralisms and Subjectivities

by Donald W. Fiske

Book Overview

What is the nature of the social sciences? What kinds of knowledge can they--and should they--hope to create? Are objective viewpoints possible and can universal laws be discovered? Questions like these have been asked with increasing urgency in recent years, as some philosophers and researchers have perceived a "crisis" in the social sciences. Metatheory in Social Science offers many provocative arguments and analyses of basic conceptual frameworks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226251926
• ISBN13: 9780226251929
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"