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The Political Sciences: General Principles of Selection in Social Science and History - Softcover

Book 9 of 33: Routledge Library Editions: Political Science

Stretton, Hugh

 
9780415652575: The Political Sciences: General Principles of Selection in Social Science and History
Softcover
ISBN 10: 041565257X ISBN 13: 9780415652575
Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

Social science is a social activity as well as a method of discovery. The researchers’ values and politics colour their work and so do their choices of scientific method. This book is about both – the technical effects of values and the political effects of technique. The author reports what social scientists and historians actually do. He sorts out the scientific from the political content in a wide range of old and new work in history, sociology, political science and economics. The overall work is a detailed political and technical criticism of the ‘scientistic’ programme which would have researchers select for such qualities as objectivity, uniformity, and generality, cumulation and professional unanimity.

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Hugh Stretton

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
041565257X
ISBN 13 
9780415652575
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
472