Norm and context in the social sciences
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Norm and context in the social sciences
(Christian studies today)
University Press of America, c1990
- alk. paper
- pbk. : alk. paper
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  Toyama
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  Fukui
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  Okayama
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Note
Contains edited versions of presentations read at a conference held in Aug. 1987 at the Free University, Amsterdam and sponsored by the Free University, Calvin College, and the Institute for Christian Studies
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In this collection of essays based on a 1987 conference at the Free University in Amsterdam, social scientists reflect philosophically and religiously on their work, on the relation of Christian faith and the social sciences, from technology to modern art to storytelling to agricultural economics. The contributors have all at some time or another had their own concern to honor norms and values ridiculed as violating scientific objectivity. In this book at least three forms of contextuality are considered: a turn to 'encounter' (over against unilinear models of development), a 'post-positivist' penchant for multiple paradigms, and a 'narrativism' which replaces the traditional ideal of context-transcending knowledge with the story. Co-Published with the Institute for Christian Studies and the Free University Press.
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