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9780754647768

There is No Such Thing as a Social Science: In Defence of Peter Winch

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  • ISBN13:

    9780754647768

  • ISBN10:

    0754647765

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-08-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Since Peter Winch's death in 1997 there has been a revival of interest in his work. However, this book contends that Winch has been misrepresented in both the recent literature and in contemporary critiques of his writing. Debates in philosophy and sociology about foundational questions of social ontology and methodology often claim to have adequately incorporated and moved beyond Winch's concerns. Re-establishing a Winchian voice, the authors argue that such contentions involve a failure to understand central themes in Winch's writings and that the issues which occupied him in his Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy and in his later papers remain central to social studies

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: the legendary Peter Winch and the myth of 'social science'
Beyond pluralism, monism, relativism, realism etc: reassessing Peter Winch
Winch and linguistic idealism
Seeing for themselves
Winch, ethnography, ethnomethodology and social studies
Winch and conservatism: the question of philosophical quietism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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