Contributors
Department of Philosophy, Saint Louis University, 3800 Lindell Blvd., HU 130, St. Norco Campus, Riverside Community College, 2001 Third Street, Norco, CA University of Maryland Department of Sociology, 2112 Art-Sociology Building College Park, MD 20742, USA. jerryhage aol.com Department of Sociology University of Calgary 2500 University Drive N.W. Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada. haines ucalgary.ca Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA. dkhndrsn memphis.edu...
IIIAnthropology Culture and Interpretation
Categories and Classification in the Soc ial Sciences 429 Hennencutic and Plienomenological Approaches 459 Tlie Origins of Ethnornethodology 485 Philosophy of Archaeology Philosophy in Archaeology 517 IV. Rationality and Normativity The Problem of Apparently Irrational Beliefs 591
Measurement
The measurement reasoning of Giddings's circle also marked a significant break with statistics as practiced by their predecessors. The Science of Statistics 1895 1910 , the work of Giddings's colleague at Columbia, Richmond Mayo-Smith, who was the major conveyer of the European statistical tradition to American students during his career at Columbia, where he was one of the earliest members of the faculty of social and political sciences. Mayo-Smith, is, with respect to measurement, a part of...
Preface
There was a time in the philosophy of social science when a volume like this could cover the issues with half dozen essays. From the perspective of the early twenty-first century, however, gaining a systematic overview of twentieth century developments in the philosophy of the social sciences, and particularly the philosophy of anthropology and sociology, is difficult. To a much greater extent than most scientific disciplines, philosophical issues and perspectives have been a part of the...
Stephen P Turner
The beginning of the 20th century coincides with the establishment of the modern disciplines of the social sciences, chiefly in the United States but on a smaller scale in Western Europe as well. These disciplinary structures, which varied from country to country, provide the organizing principle of this handbook. The early 20th century history of methodological, and more broadly, philosophical, writing in these areas is inseparable from this discipline-building process. Part of the rationale...
What was Real for Durkheim
Although much about Durkheim's methodology and philosophy remains contested, especially with respect to his ontology or realism Jones, 1999 ,3 his functional-ism or teleology,4 the implications of his use of the term representations in a fashion derived from Renouvier Stedman-Jones, 2001 , and his discussion of categories,5 current historical scholarship on Durkheim gives us a Durkheim who is dramatically different from the caricature of a functionalist and positivist that was endlessly...
Cause and Correlation
In the 1911 edition of the Grammar of Science Pearson argued that the supposed difference between cause and correlation is merely a matter of degree the difference between the laws of physics and the relations between, for example, parental and adult children's stature, is the quantitative fact of degree of variation but even observations in physics show some variation. It is hopeless, he thought, to claim that the quantitative degree of variation found in various relationships represents a...
Drkheim and the Statistics Tradition
Emile D rkheim provided the earliest and most coherent reconciliation of this fundamental tension, and it is striking how similar the lists of intellectual sources and problems actually were between these principal solutions to the common problem of constructing a science out of the materials and topics in question. Durkheim took over one of the best developed topics of the older social statistics tradition when he decided to deal with the problem of suicide in terms of his new methodological...