Elucidating social science concepts: an interpretivist guide

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Concepts have always been foundational to the social science enterprise. This book is a guide to working with them. Against the positivist project of concept ""reconstruction""--The formulation of a technical, purportedly neutral vocabulary for measuring, comparing, and generalizing-Schaffer adopts an interpretivist approach that he calls ""elucidation."" Elucidation includes both a reflexive examination of social science technical language and an investigation into the language of daily life. …

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Full title :Elucidating social science concepts : an interpretivist guide / Frederic Charles Schaffer.

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Publication Date:©2016

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Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

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Description:1 online resource (xvi, 118 pages)

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ISBN:9781136710650, 9780203814932, 1136710655, 0203814932, 1136710647, 9781136710643
DOI:10.4324/9780203814932
oclc:ocn914472348
LC Classification:H61
Dewey Decimal:300

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Preface; 1 Why Do Concepts Need Elucidating?; Positivism and Interpretivism; Experience-Distant and Experience-Near Concepts; Positivist Reconstruction versus Interpretivist Elucidation; An Example of Positivist Reconstruction: "Family"; An Interpretivist Appraisal; Interpretivist Questions about "Family"; Modes of Elucidation: Grounding, Locating, and Exposing; 2 Grounding: Elucidating How People Understand a Concept; Wittgensteinian Starting Points; Lessons for Grounding; Investigating Grammar.

Investigating Grammar EthnographicallyConclusion; 3 Locating: Elucidating Historical and Linguistic Specificity; The Trouble with Geertz on "Person" in Translation; Mapping Family Resemblances across Languages; The Trouble with Skinner on "Originality" in History; Paying Attention to Historical Rupture; Borges' Challenge; 4 Exposing: Elucidating Power; Concepts as Instruments of Power; Laying Bare the Forces and Effects of Speech Acts; Concepts as Legacies of Power; Rediscovering Struggle Genealogically; Conclusion; 5 The Ethics of Elucidating; The Value of Making the Unseen Seen.

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