Angelo Fusari 
Methodological Misconceptions in the Social Sciences [PDF ebook] 
Rethinking Social Thought and Social Processes

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This book offers a systematic view of social analysis that will advance the communication of results between different academic disciplines. It overcomes misunderstandings that are due to the use of an unstructured variety of methodological traditions in the analysis of complex socioeconomic and political processes. The book focuses on the special features of human society: humans as subjects, non-repetitiveness and irreversibility of social actions and the peculiar relations between necessity and possibility in human action. It defines methodological criteria, procedures and rules that enable researchers to select and classify realistic hypotheses to derive general principles and basic organizational features. It then applies these criteria in critical reviews of major theories and interpretations of society and history, offering clarifications and alternative proposals with regard to crucial aspects of anthropological, political, juridical, sociological and religious thought.

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Table of Content

Preface.- Introduction.- Part I. Theory.- Chapter 1. Preliminary Considerations on the Method of Social Thought.- Chapter 2. The Core of the Methodological Question: Procedure, Rules and Classifications.- Chapter 3. Heterogeneity of Methods in Social Thought: Weakness or Strength – Is there a Synthesis.- Chapter 4. Social Development and Historical Processes.- Chapter 5. On the Dynamics of Societies: Is there a Universal Theory?.- Part II. Some Applications.- Chapter 6. About Anthropology.- Chapter 7. Problems of Political Theory and Action.- Chapter 8. The Foundations of Law: Juridical Objectivism versus
Jus Naturalism and Juridical Positivism.- Chapter 9. Some Insight on Sociological Thought: Rationality, Relativism and Social Evolution in Boudon-Weber’s Cognitive Method.- Chapter 10. Further Meditations on Ethics: Values in the Light of Religious Thought and its Opponents.​

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Expertise: The method of social sciences; social development and historical processes, sociology, politics, law, ethics and religious thought; in the past, my interest mainly concerned economics, statistics, modelling and econometric estimations.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 309 ● ISBN 9789401786751 ● File size 2.7 MB ● Publisher Springer Netherland ● City Dordrecht ● Country NL ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 3057891 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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