The Logic of Social Science offers new principles for designing and conducting social science research. James Mahoney uses set-theoretic analysis to develop a fresh scientific constructivist approach that avoids essentialist biases in the production of knowledge. This approach recognizes that social categories depend on collective understandings for their existence, but it insi...(展开全部)

Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in his...(展开全部)

Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in his...(展开全部)

Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in his...(展开全部)

Philosophy of Social Science: A Contemporary Introduction examines perennial questions of philosophy through engaging the empirical study of society. Questions of normativity concern the place of values in social scientific inquiry. Questions of naturalism concern the relationship between the natural and the social sciences.　 And questions of reductionism ask how social institu...(展开全部)

阿尔弗雷德•诺思•怀特海（Alfred North Whitehead），英国著名的数学家、哲学家和教育理论家，他是20世纪庞大的形而上学体系——“过程哲学”的创始人，同时也是学界公认的20世纪伟大的哲学家之一，他在宇宙论、认识论、宗教学说三个方面超越了前人。他的《过程与实在》一书，堪与康德的《纯粹理性批判》媲美。21世纪，怀特海的过程哲学影响遍及全球：他的万物皆有物质极和精神极的理论成为现代生态学的哲理基础；物理学中的量子论印证了他的学说。 周邦宪，翻译家。1996年开始致力于翻译、介绍怀特海的过程哲学。先后译有怀特海的《观念的冒险》《过程与实在》《宗教的形成》《符号的意义及效果》，美国过程哲学家罗伯特•梅斯勒的《过程—关系哲学：浅释怀特海》，美国建设性后现代哲学家大卫•雷•格里芬的《解开世界之死结》《复魅何须超自然主义》《怀特海的另类后现代哲学》...(展开全部)

Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material to work with. Architecture's materiality is therefore a composite one, made up of visible forces (structural, functional, physical) as well as invisible forces (cultural, political, temporal). Architecture progresses thr...(展开全部)

Social constructionists maintain that we invent the properties of the world rather than discover them. Is reality constructed by our own activity? Or, more provocatively, are "scientific facts" constructed? Is "everything" constructed? This is a discussion of the philosophical issues that arise out of this controversial debate, analysing the various strengths and weaknesses of ...(展开全部)

Social constructionists maintain that we invent the properties of the world rather than discover them. Is reality constructed by our own activity? Or, more provocatively, are "scientific facts" constructed? Is "everything" constructed? This is a discussion of the philosophical issues that arise out of this controversial debate, analysing the various strengths and weaknesses of ...(展开全部)