Social Science as Moral Inquiry / / Norma Haan, William M. Sullivan, Paul Rabinow, Robert N. Bellah.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• TeilnehmendeR: Bellah, Robert N.,; Haan, Norma,; Rabinow, Paul,; Sullivan, William M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1983]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 1983
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Preface --; Introduction --; Part I. Disciplinary Critiques --; 1. Morality And The Social Sciences: A Durable Tension /; 2. Do the Social Sciences Have an Adequate Theory of Moral Development? /; 3. Humanism as Nihilism: The Bracketing of Truth and Seriousness in American Cultural Anthropology /; 4. Moral/Analytic Dilemmas Posed by the Intersection of Feminism and Social Science /; 5. Want Formation, Morality, and Some Interpretive Aspects of Economic Inquiry /; 6. History: Ethics, Science, and Fiction /; Part II. Issues of Foundation --; 7. Method and Morality /; 8. Withering Norms: Deconstructing the Foundation of the Social Sciences /; 9. Beyond Interpretation: Human Agency and the Slovenly Wilderness /; 10. An Interactional Morality of Everyday Life /; 11. Interpretive Social Science vs. Hermeneuticism /; Part III. Social Applications and Social Policy --; 12. Reflections on the Form and Content of Social Science: Toward a Consciously Political and Moral Social Science /; 13. Beyond Policy Science: The Social Sciences as Moral Sciences /; 14. Believing in Social Science: The Ethics and Epistemology of Public Opinion Research /; 15. Moral Commitment, Privatism, and Activism: Notes on a Research Program /; 16. The Ethical Aims of Social Inquiry /; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231890793; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/haan92854
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Norma Haan, William M. Sullivan, Paul Rabinow, Robert N. Bellah.

Studies the social science of moral inquiry as an attempt to develop a psychology and sociology that would explain the complex in terms of the simple as the new physics was doing in the natural realm.