How the social sciences think about the world's social : outline of a critique

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    • Kuhn, Michael

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How the social sciences think about the world's social : outline of a critique

Michael Kuhn

(Beyond the social sciences, v. 2)

Ibidem, c2016

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Includes bibliographical references

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ISBN 9783838208923

内容説明

At the beginning of the new millennium, the social sciences discover an epochal turn making it necessary to revolutionise their theory-building: As a response to what they call the globalisation of the social, they find the need to globalise their theorising as well. It is odd to discover after two centuries of colonialism and imperialism, after two world wars and several economic world crises that there is a world beyond the national socials; it is even more strange that the social sciences globalise their theorising by comparing theories about nationally confined socials and by creating all sorts of, preferably, local theories, just as if any national social was a secluded social biotope. Discussing how to globalise the social sciences, they argue that globalising social science theorising means finding a way of theorising that must, above all, be liberated from scientism in order to allow a provincialisation of thinking. Not surprisingly, the globalising social sciences also rediscover mythological and moral thinking as a means for a true scientific universalism. Michael Kuhns book presents many thought-provoking arguments on the oddities of the globalising social sciences and on how these oddities are not accidents, but a consequence of the nature of how the social sciences theorise about the social.
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ISBN 9783838209722

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At the beginning of the new millennium, the social sciences took an epochal 'turn' that revolutionized their theory-building. As a response to what they called the globalization of the social, they found the need to globalize their theorizing as well. It is curious that only after two centuries of colonialism and imperialism, after two world wars and several economic world crises, did they discover that there is a world beyond the national socials; it is even more strange that the social sciences globalize their theorizing by comparing theories about nationally confined socials and by creating all sorts of 'local' theories, as if any national social was a secluded social biotope. Trying to globalize the social sciences, they argue that globalizing social science theorizing means finding a way of theorizing that must, above all, be liberated from 'scientism' in order to allow a 'provincialization' of thinking. Not surprisingly, the globalizing social sciences have also rediscovered mythological and moral thinking as a means for a true scientific universalism. Michael Kuhn argues that the oddities of the globalizing social sciences are not accidents, but a consequence of the nature of how the social sciences theorize about the social.

目次

Acknowledgements Preface Why a theory about social sciences? Chapter A: The world's social in social science thinking Chapter B: Categorical essentials of disciplinary thinking Chapter C: The social science approach to scientific thinking-advancements of teleological theorizing Chapter D: The discourse about and the progress of social science knowledge Chapter E: Going beyond the social sciences Postscript

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  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB22719752
  • ISBN
    • 9783838209722
    • 9783838208923
  • 出版国コード
    gw
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Stuttgart
  • ページ数/冊数
    270 p.
  • 大きさ
    22 cm
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