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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400826902
035 _a(DE-B1597)446350
035 _a(OCoLC)979779236
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aShapiro, Ian
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences /
_cIan Shapiro.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2005
300 _a1 online resource (232 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: Fear of Not Flying --
_tChapter 1. The Difference That Realism Makes: Social Science and the Politics of Consent --
_tChapter 2. Revisiting the Pathologies of Rational Choice --
_tChapter 3. Richard Posner's Praxis --
_tChapter 4. Gross Concepts in Political Argument --
_tChapter 5. Problems, Methods, and Theories in the Study of Politics: Or, What's Wrong With Political Science and What to Do about It --
_tChapter 6. The Political Science Discipline: A Comment on David Laitin --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, scholars have fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from--and perpetuates--a flight from reality. In the method-driven academic culture we inhabit, argues Shapiro, researchers too often make display and refinement of their techniques the principal scholarly activity. The result is that they lose sight of the objects of their study. Pet theories and methodological blinders lead unwelcome facts to be ignored, sometimes not even perceived. The targets of Shapiro's critique include the law and economics movement, overzealous formal and statistical modeling, various reductive theories of human behavior, misguided conceptual analysis in political theory, and the Cambridge school of intellectual history. As an alternative to all of these, Shapiro makes a compelling case for problem-driven social research, rooted in a realist philosophy of science and an antireductionist view of social explanation. In the lucid--if biting--prose for which Shapiro is renowned, he explains why this requires greater critical attention to how problems are specified than is usually undertaken. He illustrates what is at stake for the study of power, democracy, law, and ideology, as well as in normative debates over rights, justice, freedom, virtue, and community. Shapiro answers many critics of his views along the way, securing his position as one of the distinctive social and political theorists of our time.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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700 1 _aGreen, Donald
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700 1 _aShapiro, Ian
_eautore
700 1 _aWendt, Alexander
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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