Collective Goods, Neglected Goods: Dealing With Methodological Failure in the Social Sciences - Rilegato

Kiesling, Herbert J.

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ISBN 10: 9810238460 ISBN 13: 9789810238469

Casa editrice: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2000

Riassunto

This book argues that mainstream social scientists have failed to be useful because of misguided efforts to use objectivist methods employed in the natural sciences - of treating humans as "things". It argues that the attempt to imitate the objectivism of natural scientists has caused social scientists to both neglect human collective goals and to overlook a virtual gold mine of empirical data which exists because humans can communicate their feelings, beliefs, and personal histories.
Part 1 of the book discusses the ways in which objectivism has led to the undue neglect of human social goals across the social sciences. Part 2 deals with objectivist failures by using models where motivation depends equally upon all important social goals. Cooperative efforts are suggested, perhaps by using alternative organizational and institutional arrangements where universities would reorganize the social sciences into single divisions of human sciences.

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Book by Kiesling Herbert J

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• Editore: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 9810238460
• ISBN 13: 9789810238469
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 267