Ideology and the social sciences
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Ideology and the social sciences
（Contributions in sociology, no. 131）
Greenwood Press, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-194) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The extent to which modern social science continues to reflect the subjective traits of authors and the contexts in which they operate, rather than the objective facts or insights they claim to develop, remains one of the most striking features of social science research and writing. Kinloch and Mohan provide a multidisciplinary and worldwide examination of the ties between the subjective traits of social scientists, the contexts in which they affect research, and the kinds of knowledge they produce.
The essays fall into five general topic areas: major theoretical issues, research as ideology, the political context of ideology, major factors in the academic setting, and the relationship between personal biography and professional ideology. This book will be of greatest concern to scholars, students, and researchers involved with the sociology of knowledge, social theory and methods, comparative social science, and social problems.
Table of Contents
Ideology and the Social Sciences: Introduction by Graham C. Kinloch and Raj P. Mohan Theoretical Issues Ideology, Myths, and Social Science by Raj P. Mohan and Graham C. Kinloch Ideology and the Research Process The Theory of Sociological Thought and the Research Process by Max Koch Sociological Research on Discontinuous Change by Henk A. Becker The Political Context of Ideology Changing Professional Ideologies of Finnish Sociology by Ilkka Pirttila and Jaakko Nuotio Beneath the Veil of Market Rationality: Cognitive Lumping and Splitting in Narratives of Economic Development by S. Wojciech Sokolowski The Academic Context of Ideology The New Theories of Postmodernity and Hypermodernity: Social/Ideological Context and Implications for Inequality by Eva Etzioni-Halevy The Paths of Recognition: Boudon, Bourdieu and the "Second Market" of Intellectuals by Jacques Coenen-Huther Science Under Siege: Interest Group Politics Confront Scientific Knowledge and Authority by Robert Perrucci and Leon E. Trachtman Biography and Ideology Academic Portraits: Autobiography and Scientific Censorship in American Sociology by Loic J. D. Wacquant Shifting Discourses: Postgraduates' Reflections on Their Theoretical Choices by Patricia Harris Biography and Professional Ideology: Two Case Studies by Graham C. Kinloch and Marvin P. Dawkins Selected Bibliography Indexes
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