What's wrong with the social sciences?: the perils of the postmodern
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Introduction
Chapter 1: WHAT S WRONG WITH THE SOCIAL SCIENCES? 1
(1) The dialectics of disenchantment 2
(1.1) Predictability, vulcanology, seismology, and (especially) meteorology 6
(1.2) Molecular mysteries and habits of the quark 8
(1.3) Rosaldo revisited: How would the catcher in the rye have felt? 12
(2) The trouble with feminist theory 13
(3) Titles and tribulations 17
(4) Solicitous gatekeepers, #1 25
(5) Itching and scratching: a Lazarsfeldian digression through an SPSS 27
hologram
(6) Transcending the transcendentalists 30
(7) What do you presuppose, and when did you presuppose it? The Sisyphus
of the social sciences 33
(8) The meaning of politics and the politics of meaning 38
Chapter 2: MICHEL FOUCAULT, MACHINES WHO THINK, AND THE
HUMAN SCIENCES 57
(1) Man the machine—man the impersonal engine 57
(2) Good, bad, or ugly? 67
(3) Mitigating circumstances 70
(4) In conclusion: Oodles of Boodles 74
(5) Why Foucault needed Lindroth, and why Lindroth needed Foucault 75
Chapter 3: IN PRAISE OF THE NULL HYPOTHESIS: THE MYTH OF THE
VALUE FREE MYTH 83
(1) The nature and extent of bias in scientific research 83
(2) Quashing the indictment: Can a Comtean rule a country? 85
(2.1) Positions 86
(2.2) Correctives 87
(2.3) Motives: A series of acts contrary ... 88
(3) Quashing the indictment: The case against functional analysis 89
(3.1) From Spencer to Weber 90
(3.2) Pareto 94
(3.3) Malinowski and Radcliffe Brown 95
(3.4) Parsons 96
(4) Overturned on appeal: Research on political power 101
(5) A new hypothesis 102
(6) Conclusion: Science as bias control 102
Chapter 4: SOCIAL SCIENCE SYNTACTICS AND EMPIRICS: ALLEGED
PROBLEMS ... Ill
(1) Three papers in search of an argument 111
(1.1) The causal conundrum 112
(1.2) A transcendence of triangulation 120
(1.3) The contours of quantiphobia 127
(2) Solicitous gatekeepers, #2 131
Chapter 5: ... AND HAPPY PROSPECTS 141
(1) Introduction 141
(2) Sex discrimination in faculty salaries: Toward projections of the middle
range 145
(3) Allocating faculty salaries with Minitab BASIC, and allowing feedback
from future states 154
(4) From a FIRM grip on reality to the AIDS epidemic: The future of social
simulations 156
(5) Conclusions 159
Chapter 6: CULTURAL MATERIALISM IN THE SYSTEMIC MODE 171
(1) An excursion into cultural functionalism 171
(1.1) An emergent consensus 172
(1.2) Sub cranial worlds and other pitfalls 174
(2) The POET paradigm: A transcendence of hierarchy 178
(3) Reciprocal interaction: Organization and technology 179
(3.1) Wagons, waterways, and William F. Ogburn 179
(3.2) A functionalist overview of an ecosystem 186
Chapter 7: SOCIAL SCIENCE SEMANTICS: A SAD STORY 195
(1) Introduction 195
(2) Contemporary thesauri with taxonomic overtones 200
(3) The logic of taxonomies 205
(4) Sampling, search, and test strategies for Sociological Abstracts: Hierarchies
without perks 209
(5) First conclusion 214
(6) Codicil 1991 215
(7) Frequencies and amplitudes: Toward a taxonomy of time series 216
(8) Online searches as a data source: Notes on the future of taxonomy 219
(8.1) Data reduction: Obtaining simple counts 221
(8.2) Data reduction: The REPORT command 222
(9) Final conclusion 223
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