KNOWLEDGE AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES by David Goldblatt ( 9780415222860 )

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Title:

KNOWLEDGE AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
THEORY, METHOD AND PRACTICE

By:

David Goldblatt

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0415222869

ISBN 13:

9780415222860

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

6 July, 2000

Series:

Understanding Social Change

Pages:

192

Description:

Knowledge and the Social Sciences provides a clear and engaging introduction to key philosophical and epistemological issues in the social sciences, to both positivist and interpretative methodologies.

Synopsis:

Knowledge and the Social Sciences takes as its point of departure the claims that all forms of knowledge, the social sciences included, must be seen and understood in their social context. It argues that the social sciences both describe and transform their object of study, though rarely in ways that social scientists intend, and introduces students to the key epistemological and philosophical terms and issues essential for further study in the social sciences. In a radical and yet lucid and practical introduction to ways of thinking and knowing in the social sciences this text investigates: the origins and consequences of different types of knowledge in substantive areas of social change: medical practice, religious beliefs, and the environment whether there is a decline in public trust of expert knowledge systems whether we are entering a knowledge society, a fragmented post-modern society, or a risk society.

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Imprint:

Routledge

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