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The iron cage closes.
IT SEEMS I AM a relic of an intellectual tradition that is now obsolete. Some years back I did a Bachelor of Arts degree in the Social Sciences and went on to do Honours in Philosophy. I'm now doing a doctorate in Sociology at the Carseldine campus of the Queensland University of Technology (slogan, "a university for the real world[R]"). Being an intellectual product of the "old" Social Sciences and Humanities, I understand that my Vice-Chancellor, Professor Peter Coaldrake, sees my type of study as likely to have poor employment outcomes and my research as likely to have little industry-linked funding possibilities. So, I am somewhat irrelevant to QUT's real world[R], ...
- Max Weber's Methodology: The Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences.
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Keating, Craig December 1, 2000 700+ words
Max Weber's Methodology: The...Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences, by Fritz Ringer. Cambridge...usually associated with the social sciences and the political struggles...dehistoricizing" influence of the social sciences and postmodernism in...
- Mathematics in the Social Sciences
- Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences January 1, 2008 700+ words
...p. 1755). In the social sciences, an abstraction from...to function in the social sciences in turn depends on...mathematical models of the social sciences, James R. Newman...work of Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795-1878), who...
- The Early Origins of the Social Sciences.
- Magazine article from: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology Morgan, J. Graham February 1, 1997 700+ words
...Women Founders of the Social Sciences (1994). The Early...research techniques of the social sciences in order to provide...the history of the social sciences is absolutely not confined...and the last is Max Weber who, at about 13 pages...
- What Makes a Concept Good? A Criterial Framework for Understanding Concept...
- Magazine article from: Polity Gerring, John March 22, 1999 700+ words
...formation within the social sciences. Rather than conceiving...formation within the social sciences. To be sure, concepts...of social science. Weber notes that the progress...The history of the social sciences is and remains a continuous...
- Caste (Concepts in the Social Sciences).(Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute GELLNER, DAVID N. March 1, 2000 700+ words
SHARMA, URSULA. Caste (Concepts in the Social Sciences). vi, 105 pp., bibliogr., index. Buckingham...some of) the main debates over caste within the social sciences: Weber, Bougl[acute{e}], Berreman, B[acute...
- A new dictionary of the social sciences, 2d. ed. (reprint, 1979).(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2007 700+ words
0202308782 A new dictionary of the social sciences, 2d. ed. (reprint, 1979) Ed. by G. Duncan Mitchell...of elections); and key historical figures, e.g., Max Weber and Karl Marx. But there is less coverage of more contemporary...
- Philosophy and methodology of the social sciences; 4v.(Brief Article)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2005 700+ words
076194737X Philosophy and methodology of the social sciences; 4v. Ed. by Mark J. Smith. Sage Publications 2005...represented in 11 selections in v.2, written by Max Weber, Harold Garfinkel, and Richard Rorty, among others...
- Early origins of the social sciences.
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Sociology September 22, 1996 700+ words
The thesis of this book is as ambitious as its scope. Beginning with the pre-Socratic philosophers and ending with Max Weber, McDonald argues that "empiricism" has been unjustly maligned as politically conservative. Her project is to re-analyze...
Source: HighBeam Research, The iron cage closes.