1st Edition
Boundaries of Competence Knowing the Social with Science
Edited By Gwynne Nettler
Copyright 2003
322 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
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The term "social science" promises more than its practitioners can deliver: it promises knowledge. This knowledge is to consist of statements of empirical regularities of such quality as will enhance predictive power and inform public and private policy. Boundaries of Competence illuminates obstacles to this aspiration. Chapter 1 grounds knowledge in perception. Chapter 2 challenges the... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Perceiving and Conceiving
1. Primal Knowledge
2. Linguistic Follies
3. Varieties of Knowing
Part 2: Knowing with Numbers
4. Measurement
5. Units and Correlates
6. Probabilities
Part 3: Limited Vision
7. Social Facts
8. Vicarious Observation
Part 4: Explanation
9. Empathetic Explanation
10. Causal Explanation
Part 5: Policy
11. Rationality
12. Morality
Summing Up
Notes
References
Index
Biography
Gwynne Nettler
