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The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often declared obsolete, positivism is alive and well in a number of the fields; in others…
Offers a comparative assessment of the variations of positivism & alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often declared obsolete, positivism is alive & well in a number of fields, while in others its influence is significantly diminished.
"During a period dominated by the biological determinism of Cesare Lombroso, Italy constructed a new prison system that sought to reconcile criminology with nation building and new definitions of citizenship. Italian Prisons in the Age of Positivism, 1861-1914 examines this "sec…
