The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences / / Ian Shapiro.
In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, schol...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
MitwirkendeR: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
9781400826902 |
---|---|
ctrlnum |
(DE-B1597)446350 (OCoLC)979779236 |
collection |
bib_alma |
record_format |
marc |
spelling |
Shapiro, Ian, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences / Ian Shapiro. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2005 1 online resource (232 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fear of Not Flying -- Chapter 1. The Difference That Realism Makes: Social Science and the Politics of Consent -- Chapter 2. Revisiting the Pathologies of Rational Choice -- Chapter 3. Richard Posner's Praxis -- Chapter 4. Gross Concepts in Political Argument -- Chapter 5. Problems, Methods, and Theories in the Study of Politics: Or, What's Wrong With Political Science and What to Do about It -- Chapter 6. The Political Science Discipline: A Comment on David Laitin -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, scholars have fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from--and perpetuates--a flight from reality. In the method-driven academic culture we inhabit, argues Shapiro, researchers too often make display and refinement of their techniques the principal scholarly activity. The result is that they lose sight of the objects of their study. Pet theories and methodological blinders lead unwelcome facts to be ignored, sometimes not even perceived. The targets of Shapiro's critique include the law and economics movement, overzealous formal and statistical modeling, various reductive theories of human behavior, misguided conceptual analysis in political theory, and the Cambridge school of intellectual history. As an alternative to all of these, Shapiro makes a compelling case for problem-driven social research, rooted in a realist philosophy of science and an antireductionist view of social explanation. In the lucid--if biting--prose for which Shapiro is renowned, he explains why this requires greater critical attention to how problems are specified than is usually undertaken. He illustrates what is at stake for the study of power, democracy, law, and ideology, as well as in normative debates over rights, justice, freedom, virtue, and community. Shapiro answers many critics of his views along the way, securing his position as one of the distinctive social and political theorists of our time. 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 30. Aug 2021) SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Green, Donald, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Shapiro, Ian, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Wendt, Alexander, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691134017 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400826902 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400826902 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400826902.jpg |
language |
English |
format |
eBook |
author |
Shapiro, Ian, Shapiro, Ian, |
spellingShingle |
Shapiro, Ian, Shapiro, Ian, The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fear of Not Flying -- Chapter 1. The Difference That Realism Makes: Social Science and the Politics of Consent -- Chapter 2. Revisiting the Pathologies of Rational Choice -- Chapter 3. Richard Posner's Praxis -- Chapter 4. Gross Concepts in Political Argument -- Chapter 5. Problems, Methods, and Theories in the Study of Politics: Or, What's Wrong With Political Science and What to Do about It -- Chapter 6. The Political Science Discipline: A Comment on David Laitin -- Index |
author_facet |
Shapiro, Ian, Shapiro, Ian, Green, Donald, Green, Donald, Shapiro, Ian, Shapiro, Ian, Wendt, Alexander, Wendt, Alexander, |
author_variant |
i s is i s is |
author_role |
VerfasserIn VerfasserIn |
author2 |
Green, Donald, Green, Donald, Shapiro, Ian, Shapiro, Ian, Wendt, Alexander, Wendt, Alexander, |
author2_variant |
d g dg d g dg i s is i s is a w aw a w aw |
author2_role |
MitwirkendeR MitwirkendeR MitwirkendeR MitwirkendeR MitwirkendeR MitwirkendeR |
author_sort |
Shapiro, Ian, |
title |
The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences / |
title_full |
The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences / Ian Shapiro. |
title_fullStr |
The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences / Ian Shapiro. |
title_full_unstemmed |
The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences / Ian Shapiro. |
title_auth |
The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences / |
title_alt |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fear of Not Flying -- Chapter 1. The Difference That Realism Makes: Social Science and the Politics of Consent -- Chapter 2. Revisiting the Pathologies of Rational Choice -- Chapter 3. Richard Posner's Praxis -- Chapter 4. Gross Concepts in Political Argument -- Chapter 5. Problems, Methods, and Theories in the Study of Politics: Or, What's Wrong With Political Science and What to Do about It -- Chapter 6. The Political Science Discipline: A Comment on David Laitin -- Index |
title_new |
The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences / |
title_sort |
the flight from reality in the human sciences / |
publisher |
Princeton University Press, |
publishDate |
2009 |
physical |
1 online resource (232 p.) Issued also in print. |
edition |
Course Book |
contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fear of Not Flying -- Chapter 1. The Difference That Realism Makes: Social Science and the Politics of Consent -- Chapter 2. Revisiting the Pathologies of Rational Choice -- Chapter 3. Richard Posner's Praxis -- Chapter 4. Gross Concepts in Political Argument -- Chapter 5. Problems, Methods, and Theories in the Study of Politics: Or, What's Wrong With Political Science and What to Do about It -- Chapter 6. The Political Science Discipline: A Comment on David Laitin -- Index |
isbn |
9781400826902 9783110442502 9780691134017 |
callnumber-first |
H - Social Science |
callnumber-subject |
H - Social Science |
callnumber-label |
H61 |
callnumber-sort |
H 261 S5139 42005 |
url |
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400826902 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400826902 https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400826902.jpg |
illustrated |
Not Illustrated |
dewey-hundreds |
300 - Social sciences |
dewey-tens |
300 - Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
dewey-ones |
300 - Social sciences |
dewey-full |
300/.1 |
dewey-sort |
3300 11 |
dewey-raw |
300/.1 |
dewey-search |
300/.1 |
doi_str_mv |
10.1515/9781400826902 |
oclc_num |
979779236 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT shapiroian theflightfromrealityinthehumansciences AT greendonald theflightfromrealityinthehumansciences AT wendtalexander theflightfromrealityinthehumansciences AT shapiroian flightfromrealityinthehumansciences AT greendonald flightfromrealityinthehumansciences AT wendtalexander flightfromrealityinthehumansciences |
status_str |
n |
ids_txt_mv |
(DE-B1597)446350 (OCoLC)979779236 |
carrierType_str_mv |
cr |
hierarchy_parent_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
is_hierarchy_title |
The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences / |
container_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
author2_original_writing_str_mv |
noLinkedField noLinkedField noLinkedField noLinkedField noLinkedField noLinkedField |
_version_ |
1806143541113520128 |
fullrecord |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>04946nam a22007335i 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">9781400826902</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-B1597</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20210830012106.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m|||||o||d||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr || ||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">210830t20092005nju fo d z eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9781400826902</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.1515/9781400826902</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-B1597)446350</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)979779236</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="b">eng</subfield><subfield code="c">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">nju</subfield><subfield code="c">US-NJ</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="050" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">H61.S5139 2005</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="072" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">SOC000000</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">300/.1</subfield><subfield code="2">22</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Shapiro, Ian, </subfield><subfield code="e">author.</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield><subfield code="4">http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences /</subfield><subfield code="c">Ian Shapiro.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="250" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Course Book</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Princeton, NJ : </subfield><subfield code="b">Princeton University Press, </subfield><subfield code="c">[2009]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">©2005</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (232 p.)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text</subfield><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">computer</subfield><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">online resource</subfield><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="347" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text file</subfield><subfield code="b">PDF</subfield><subfield code="2">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="t">Frontmatter -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Contents -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Acknowledgments -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Introduction: Fear of Not Flying -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 1. The Difference That Realism Makes: Social Science and the Politics of Consent -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 2. Revisiting the Pathologies of Rational Choice -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 3. Richard Posner's Praxis -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 4. Gross Concepts in Political Argument -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 5. Problems, Methods, and Theories in the Study of Politics: Or, What's Wrong With Political Science and What to Do about It -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 6. The Political Science Discipline: A Comment on David Laitin -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Index</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="506" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">restricted access</subfield><subfield code="u">http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec</subfield><subfield code="f">online access with authorization</subfield><subfield code="2">star</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, scholars have fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from--and perpetuates--a flight from reality. In the method-driven academic culture we inhabit, argues Shapiro, researchers too often make display and refinement of their techniques the principal scholarly activity. The result is that they lose sight of the objects of their study. Pet theories and methodological blinders lead unwelcome facts to be ignored, sometimes not even perceived. The targets of Shapiro's critique include the law and economics movement, overzealous formal and statistical modeling, various reductive theories of human behavior, misguided conceptual analysis in political theory, and the Cambridge school of intellectual history. As an alternative to all of these, Shapiro makes a compelling case for problem-driven social research, rooted in a realist philosophy of science and an antireductionist view of social explanation. In the lucid--if biting--prose for which Shapiro is renowned, he explains why this requires greater critical attention to how problems are specified than is usually undertaken. He illustrates what is at stake for the study of power, democracy, law, and ideology, as well as in normative debates over rights, justice, freedom, virtue, and community. Shapiro answers many critics of his views along the way, securing his position as one of the distinctive social and political theorists of our time.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="530" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Issued also in print.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="538" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="700" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Green, Donald, </subfield><subfield code="e">contributor.</subfield><subfield code="4">ctb</subfield><subfield code="4">https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="700" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Shapiro, Ian, </subfield><subfield code="e">contributor.</subfield><subfield code="4">ctb</subfield><subfield code="4">https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="700" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Wendt, Alexander, </subfield><subfield code="e">contributor.</subfield><subfield code="4">ctb</subfield><subfield code="4">https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110442502</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="c">print</subfield><subfield code="z">9780691134017</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400826902</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400826902</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="3">Cover</subfield><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400826902.jpg</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-044250-2 Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013</subfield><subfield code="c">2000</subfield><subfield code="d">2013</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_BACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_CL_SN</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ECL_SN</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EEBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ESSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_PPALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_SSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_STMALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">GBV-deGruyter-alles</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA11SSHE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA12STME</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA13ENGE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA17SSHEE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA5EBK</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |