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Ideology and the Social Sciences
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Graham C. Kinloch, Raj P. Mohan
Book Code: GM1289
ISBN: 0-313-31289-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31289-2
216 pages, bibliography
Greenwood Press
Publication: 6/30/2000
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Contributions in Sociology
Series Number: 131
Reviews:
  • ...any social scientist, sociologist or not, who spends time with these essays contributed by fourteen distinguished international scholars, will be well rewarded....a serious study of the issues raised in this book must be a high priority for all social scientists.
    —Contemporary Sociology
Description: The extent to which modern social science continues to reflect the subjective traits of authors and the contexts in which they operate, rather than the "objective facts" or "insights" they claim to develop, remains one of the most striking features of social science research and writing. Kinloch and Mohan provide a multidisciplinary and worldwide examination of the ties between the subjective traits of social scientists, the contexts in which they affect research, and the kinds of "knowledge" they produce. The essays fall into five general topic areas: major theoretical issues, research as ideology, the political context of ideology, major factors in the academic setting, and the relationship between personal biography and professional ideology. This book will be of greatest concern to scholars, students, and researchers involved with the sociology of knowledge, social theory and methods, comparative social science, and social problems.
Table of Contents:
  • Ideology and the Social Sciences: Introduction by Graham C. Kinloch and Raj P. Mohan
  • Theoretical Issues
  • Ideology, Myths, and Social Science by Raj P. Mohan and Graham C. Kinloch
  • Ideology and the Research Process
  • The Theory of Sociological Thought and the Research Process by Max Koch
  • Sociological Research on Discontinuous Change by Henk A. Becker
  • The Political Context of Ideology
  • Changing Professional Ideologies of Finnish Sociology by Ilkka Pirttila and Jaakko Nuotio
  • Beneath the Veil of Market Rationality: Cognitive Lumping and Splitting in Narratives of Economic Development by S. Wojciech Sokolowski
  • The Academic Context of Ideology
  • The New Theories of Postmodernity and Hypermodernity: Social/Ideological Context and Implications for Inequality by Eva Etzioni-Halevy
  • The Paths of Recognition: Boudon, Bourdieu and the "Second Market" of Intellectuals by Jacques Coenen-Huther
  • Science Under Siege: Interest Group Politics Confront Scientific Knowledge and Authority by Robert Perrucci and Leon E. Trachtman
  • Biography and Ideology
  • Academic Portraits: Autobiography and Scientific Censorship in American Sociology by Loic J. D. Wacquant
  • Shifting Discourses: Postgraduates' Reflections on Their Theoretical Choices by Patricia Harris
  • Biography and Professional Ideology: Two Case Studies by Graham C. Kinloch and Marvin P. Dawkins
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Indexes
LC Card Number: 99-056455
LCC Class: HM641
Dewey Class: 301
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