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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"philosophy of social science"”.
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Reclaiming novelty : Hannah Arendt on natality as an anti-methodological methodology for sociology
… seeks to contribute to research in the philosophy of social science. The study focuses upon select epistemological and ontological aspects of Hannah Arendt’s work from which methodological implications are drawn pertaining to sociology. Arendt, although critical of the sociology of her …
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The interplay between structure and agency: How academic development programme students 'make their way' through their undergraduate studies in engineering
… and seeks to explain the ways in which a group of Academic Development Programme (ADP) students 'made their way' through their studies in engineering at the University of Cape Town. Underpinned by Bhaskar's realist philosophy of social science, the study uses Margaret Archer's morphogenetic …
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Making Up Reasons: constructivism, functionalism, and reasons
This dissertation expounds and defends a theory of what it is for some fact to be a reason. The goal of the dissertation is to combine the role of reasons in justifying behavior with the role of reasons in motivating behavior, to give a more robust, practically viable account of reasons that can be …
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What we see through the scarcity lens
… more tightly circumscribe the explanatory aims of the subject. Economists are, on this view, only trying to describe a specific part of the social world, and only aim to elucidate factors relevant to that part. A statement of this kind of view can be found in Lionel Robbins’ hugely influential …
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When better worlds collide: historical essays on the politics of international development and social science
This thesis is on politics, but of a very particular type. Tied to our very perceptions of existence and ways of life, it stems from deeper differences and entanglements. Exacerbated by post-Cold War globalisation, said politics is explored here in the contexts of international development. …
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Det vardagliga och det vetenskapliga : Om sociologins begrepp
… formation and its relation to everyday life and social sciences. The main theoretical positions in the debate are summarized in two ideal typological models: (1) The rationalist theory of an epistemological break between everyday life and social science, here represented by the scholarships of …
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Pluralism and social epistemology in economics
… fails to enable, encourage, and respect the use of different ontologies, methodologies, theories, and/or schools of thought to study economic reality. Has this been a productive critique? Does talk about pluralism help identify genuine problems in the discipline? Pluralism in economics could draw …