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Pragmatic Inquiry: Critical Concepts for Social Sciences book cover

1st Edition

Pragmatic Inquiry Critical Concepts for Social Sciences

Edited By John R. Bowen, Nicolas Dodier, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Anita Hardon Copyright 2021
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge
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This book examines a range of critical concepts that are central to a shift in the social sciences toward "pragmatic inquiry," reflecting a twenty-first century concern with particular problems and themes rather than grand theory. Taking a transnational and transdisciplinary approach, the collection demonstrates a shared commitment to using analytical concepts for empirical exploration and a... Read more

Introduction  The Editors

Part 1. Institutions

1. Fields  Tim Bartley

2. Ecologies of Institutions  Daniel Cefaï

Part 2. Complex Objects

3. Dispositif  Nicolas Dodier and Janine Barbot

4. Assemblage  Anthony Stavrianakis

5. Market Device  Olav Velthuis

6. Complexity  Talia Dan-Cohen

Part 3. Framing Stances

7. Justification  John Bowen

8. Narrative  James Wertsch and Nutsa Batiashvili

9. Qualification  Giselinde Kuipers and Thomas Franssen

Part 4. Practices

10. Demonstrating  Claude Rosental

11. Caring  Annemarie Mol and Anita Hardon

12. Making Home  Paolo Boccagni and Jan Willem Duyvendak

Postface

13. Making Sense of Reality Together: Interdisciplinary "Ways of Seeing"  Michèle Lamont

Biography

John R. Bowen is Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.

Nicolas Dodier is a Sociologist, Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Researcher at the National Institute for Health and Medical Research, France.

Jan Willem Duyvendak is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Anita Hardon is Professor in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she also leads the interdisciplinary research priority area Global Health.

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