The logic of social science:
"Mahoney's starting point is the problem of essentialism in social science. Essentialism--the belief that the members of a category possess hidden properties ("essences") that make them members of the category and that endow them with a certain nature--is appropriate for scientif...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Mahoney's starting point is the problem of essentialism in social science. Essentialism--the belief that the members of a category possess hidden properties ("essences") that make them members of the category and that endow them with a certain nature--is appropriate for scientific categories ("atoms", for instance) but not for human ones ("revolutions," for instance). Despite this, much social science research takes place from within an essentialist orientation; those who reject this assumption goes so far in the other direction as to reject the idea of an external reality, independent of human beings, altogether. Mahoney proposes an alternative approach that aspires to bridge this enduring rift in the social sciences between those who take a scientific approach and assume that social science categories correspond to external reality (and thus believe that the methods used in the natural sciences are generally appropriate for the social sciences) and those who take a constructivist approach and believe that because the categories used to understand the social world are humanly-constructed, they cannot possibly follow the science of the natural world. As the name suggests, scientific constructivism brings in aspects of both views and attempts to unite them. Drawing from cognitive science, it focuses on using the rational parts of our brain machinery to overcome the limitations and deeply seated biases (such as essentialism) of our evolved minds. Specifically, Mahoney puts forth a "set-theoretic analysis" that focuses on "sets" of categories as they exist in the mind that are also subject to the mathematical logic of set-theory. He spends the first four chapters of the book establishing the foundations and methods for set-theoretic analysis, the next four chapters looking and how this analysis fits with the existing tools of social science, and the final four chapters focusing on how this approach can be used to study and understand cases"-- |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Preface xiii Introduction 1 PART I. ONTOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY 1 Scientific Constructivism 13 2 Foundations of Set-Theoretic Analysis 48 PART II. METHODOLOGICAL TOOLS 3 Set-Theoretic Methodology 77 4 Set-Theoretic Tests 5 Counterfactual Analysis (coauthored with Rodrigo Barrenechea) 6 Sequence Analysis (coauthored with Erin Kimball Damman and Kendra Koivu) 171 7 Bayesian Analysis (coauthored with Rodrigo Barrenechea) 115 139 186 PART III. EXPLANATORY TOOLS 8 Theory Frames and Normative Traditions 211 9 Categories for Constructing Theories and Explanations 238 10 Critical Event Analysis (coauthored with Laura Garcia-Montoya) 11 Path Dependence Analysis Conclusion 315 294 269
Vili CONTENTS Glossary Notes 319 327 References Index 379 341
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CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Preface xiii Introduction 1 PART I. ONTOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY 1 Scientific Constructivism 13 2 Foundations of Set-Theoretic Analysis 48 PART II. METHODOLOGICAL TOOLS 3 Set-Theoretic Methodology 77 4 Set-Theoretic Tests 5 Counterfactual Analysis (coauthored with Rodrigo Barrenechea) 6 Sequence Analysis (coauthored with Erin Kimball Damman and Kendra Koivu) 171 7 Bayesian Analysis (coauthored with Rodrigo Barrenechea) 115 139 186 PART III. EXPLANATORY TOOLS 8 Theory Frames and Normative Traditions 211 9 Categories for Constructing Theories and Explanations 238 10 Critical Event Analysis (coauthored with Laura Garcia-Montoya) 11 Path Dependence Analysis Conclusion 315 294 269
Vili CONTENTS Glossary Notes 319 327 References Index 379 341 |
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