Collective Goods, Neglected Goods: Dealing With Methodological Failure In The Social Sciences - Hardcover

Kiesling, Herbert J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9810238460 ISBN 13: 9789810238469

Verlag: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

This book argues that mainstream social scientists have failed to be useful because of misguided efforts to use objectivist methods employed in the natural sciences - of treating humans as "things". It argues that the attempt to imitate the objectivism of natural scientists has caused social scientists to both neglect human collective goals and to overlook a virtual gold mine of empirical data which exists because humans can communicate their feelings, beliefs, and personal histories.
Part 1 of the book discusses the ways in which objectivism has led to the undue neglect of human social goals across the social sciences. Part 2 deals with objectivist failures by using models where motivation depends equally upon all important social goals. Cooperative efforts are suggested, perhaps by using alternative organizational and institutional arrangements where universities would reorganize the social sciences into single divisions of human sciences.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9810238460
• ISBN 13: 9789810238469
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
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