Social Science as Moral Inquiry / / 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.

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1983]
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Year of Publication:1983
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Disciplinary Critiques
  • 1. Morality And The Social Sciences: A Durable Tension / Hirschman, Albert O.
  • 2. Do the Social Sciences Have an Adequate Theory of Moral Development? / Gilligan, Carol
  • 3. Humanism as Nihilism: The Bracketing of Truth and Seriousness in American Cultural Anthropology / Rabinow, Paul
  • 4. Moral/Analytic Dilemmas Posed by the Intersection of Feminism and Social Science / Rosaldo, Michelle Z.
  • 5. Want Formation, Morality, and Some Interpretive Aspects of Economic Inquiry / McPherson, Michael S.
  • 6. History: Ethics, Science, and Fiction / Certeau, Michel de
  • Part II. Issues of Foundation
  • 7. Method and Morality / Rorty, Richard
  • 8. Withering Norms: Deconstructing the Foundation of the Social Sciences / Schürmann, Reiner
  • 9. Beyond Interpretation: Human Agency and the Slovenly Wilderness / Salkever, Stephen G.
  • 10. An Interactional Morality of Everyday Life / Haan, Norma
  • 11. Interpretive Social Science vs. Hermeneuticism / Habermas, Jürgen
  • 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 / Narr, Wolf-Dieter
  • 13. Beyond Policy Science: The Social Sciences as Moral Sciences / Sullivan, William M.
  • 14. Believing in Social Science: The Ethics and Epistemology of Public Opinion Research / Sievers, Bruce
  • 15. Moral Commitment, Privatism, and Activism: Notes on a Research Program / Flacks, Richard
  • 16. The Ethical Aims of Social Inquiry / Bellah, Robert N.
  • Index