Pragmatic Inquiry: Critical Concepts for Social Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780367472030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 234 str.

John R. Bowen; Nicolas Dodier; Jan Willem Duyvendak

Opis

This book examines a range of critical concepts that are central to a shift in the social sciences toward ‘pragmatic inquiry’, reflecting a twenty-first century concern with particular problems and themes rather than grand theory.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1. Institutions  1. Fields  2. Ecologies of Institutions  Part 2. Complex Objects  3. Dispositif  4. Assemblage  5. Market Device  6. Complexity  Part 3. Framing Stances  7. Justification  8. Narrative  9. Qualification  Part 4. Practices  10. Demonstrating  11. Caring  12. Making Home  Postface 13. Making Sense of Reality Together: Interdisciplinary "Ways of Seeing"