Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences

ISBN-13: 9783030331016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 305 str.

Jaan Valsiner

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Social sciences between knowledge and ideologies: need for philosophy

Part I.  Social and cognitive roots for reflexivity upon the research process

Chapter 2. Social sciences, what for? On the manifold directions of social research

Chapter 3. Vitenskapsteori--  - what, how and why?

Chapter 4.  Culture or Biology? If this sounds interesting, you might be confused.

Chapter 5.  Conditional Objectivism: A Strategy for Connecting the Social Sciences and Practical Decision-Making

Chapter 6. Towards Reflexivity in Science: Anthropological Reflections on Science and Society

Part II.  Philosophies of explanation in the social sciences

Chapter 7. Explanation: guidance for social scientists

Chapter 8. From causality to catalysis in the social sciences

Chapter 9. How to identify and how to conduct research that is informative and reproducible

Chapter 10.  Explaining social phenomena: Emergence and Levels of Explanation

Part III.  Social normativity in social sciences

Chapter 11. Normativity in psychology and the social sciences: Questions of universality

Chapter 12.  The crisis in psychological science, and the need for a person-oriented approach

Chapter 13.  Open access, a remedy to the crisis in scientific inquiry?

Part IV.   Social processes in particular sciences: challenges to interdisciplinarity

Chapter 14. Fragmented and Critical? Some challenges for a social organization of Norwegian sociology, and implications for innovation

Chapter 15. How do economists think?

Part V.General Conclusion

Chapter 16.  What can social science practitioners learn from philosophies of science?

Index

O autorze

Jaan Valsiner is a cultural psychologist with a consistently developmental axiomatic base that is brought to analyses of any psychological or social phenomena. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, Culture & Psychology. And Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. He has been Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark in 2013-2018 and Professeur invitee at University of Luxembourg (2013-2019).  He has published and edited around 50 books, the most pertinent of which are his monographs The guided mind (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1998),  Culture in minds and societies (New Delhi: Sage, 2007), and Ornamented Lives (Charlotte NC: Information Age, 2019).  He has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize of 1995 in Germany, and the Hans-Kilian-Preis of 2017, for his interdisciplinary work on human development, as well as Senior Fulbright Lecturing Award in Brazil 1995-1997. He has been a visiting professor in Brazil, Japan, Australia, Estonia. Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. 

Blurb

This is an international and interdisciplinary volume that provides a new look at general background of the social sciences from a philosophical perspective and provides directions for methodology. It seeks to overcome the limitations of the traditional treatises of a philosophy of science rooted in the physical sciences, as well as extend the coverage of basic science to intentional and socially normative features of the social sciences.

 

The discussions included in this book are divided into four thematic sections:

• Social and cognitive roots for reflexivity upon the research process
• Philosophies of explanation in the social sciences
• Social normativity in social sciences
• Social processes in particular sciences

 

Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences will find an interested audience in students of the philosophy of science and social sciences. It will also relevant for researchers and students in the fields of psychology, sociology, economics, anthropology, education, and political science.