The Saving Lie : : Truth and Method in the Social Sciences / / F. G. Bailey.
This book explores the distinction between selflessness and self-interestedness, between acting for one's own advantage and acting, even when disadvantageous, for reasons of duty or conscience. This apparently straightforward contrast (exemplified in the difference between rational-choice model...
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Bailey, F. G., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Saving Lie : Truth and Method in the Social Sciences / F. G. Bailey. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013] ©2003 1 online resource (232 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Ideas, Reality, and Saving Lies -- Part I. Expediency -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Very Beautiful Theory -- Chapter 2. The Coase Recension and Its Lineage -- Chapter 3. Gains from Trade -- Part II. Morality -- Introduction -- Chapter 4. Natural Systems and Moral Systems -- Chapter 5. Imaginative Constructs and Social Reality -- Chapter 6. A Piece of the Action -- Part III. Agency and Rhetoric -- Introduction -- Chapter 7. Affirming Structure: The Amen Category -- Chapter 8. Contested Structures -- Conclusion: General Theses and Particular Cases -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This book explores the distinction between selflessness and self-interestedness, between acting for one's own advantage and acting, even when disadvantageous, for reasons of duty or conscience. This apparently straightforward contrast (exemplified in the difference between rational-choice models in economics and holistic models in social anthropology) is a source of confusion. This is so, F. G. Bailey argues, because people polarize and essentialize both actors and actions and uphold one or the other side of the contrast as concrete reality, as the truth about how the social world works. The task of The Saving Lie is to show that both versions are convenient fictions, with instrumental rather than ontological significance: they are not about truth but about power. At best they are tools that enable us to make sense of our experience; at the same time they are weapons we deploy to define situations and thus exercise control.Bailey says that both models fail the test of empiricism: they can be at once immensely elegant and quite remote from anyone's experience in the real world. And since both models are "saving lies," we should accept them as necessities, but only to the extent they are useful, and we should constantly remind ourselves of their limitations. The wrong course, according to Bailey, is to promote one model to the total exclusion of the other. Instead, we should take care to examine systematically the rhetoric used to promote these models not only in intellectual discourse but also in defining situations in everyday life.The book strongly and directly advocates a point of view that combines skepticism with a determination to anchor abstract argument in evidence. It is argumentative; it invites confrontation; yet it leaves many doors open for further thought. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Ethics. Social sciences Methodology. Folklore. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Anthropology. General. Linguistics. Social Science. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Social Sciences 9783110413618 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812237306 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201185 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812201185 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812201185/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Ideas, Reality, and Saving Lies -- Part I. Expediency -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Very Beautiful Theory -- Chapter 2. The Coase Recension and Its Lineage -- Chapter 3. Gains from Trade -- Part II. Morality -- Chapter 4. Natural Systems and Moral Systems -- Chapter 5. Imaginative Constructs and Social Reality -- Chapter 6. A Piece of the Action -- Part III. Agency and Rhetoric -- Chapter 7. Affirming Structure: The Amen Category -- Chapter 8. Contested Structures -- Conclusion: General Theses and Particular Cases -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Ideas, Reality, and Saving Lies -- Part I. Expediency -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Very Beautiful Theory -- Chapter 2. The Coase Recension and Its Lineage -- Chapter 3. Gains from Trade -- Part II. Morality -- Chapter 4. Natural Systems and Moral Systems -- Chapter 5. Imaginative Constructs and Social Reality -- Chapter 6. A Piece of the Action -- Part III. Agency and Rhetoric -- Chapter 7. Affirming Structure: The Amen Category -- Chapter 8. Contested Structures -- Conclusion: General Theses and Particular Cases -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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