A Brief History of Knowledge for Social Science Researchers Before Method

• Main Author: Court, Deborah
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2020; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Ancient Greece; Development of knowledge systems; Ethnography & Methodology; History; history of knowledge; Knowledge, Sociology of; origins of research methods; philosophy; research knowledge; research methods; Research Methods - Soc. Policy; Research Methods for Social and Behavioral Sciences; Research Methods in Education; research paradigms; Social science research; Social sciences; Good Life; Young Man; Mixed Methods Researchers; Social Reproduction; Logical Verification; Interpretive Paradigm; Nicolaus Copernicus; Copernicus; Social Science Research; Aristotle’s Practical Wisdom; Military Junta; Ancient Greece; Common Language; Personal Practical Knowledge; Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana; Libre Des Sciences Politiques; Direct Democracy; Vienna Circle
• ISBN: 9780367370794; 0367370794
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429352607

A Brief History of Knowledge for Social Science Researchers outlines a history of knowledge from Ancient Greece to present day, in Europe and the Western world. This outline provides the basis for understanding where various research methods originate, and their epistemological, historical, political and social roots. This book provides social science researchers with an understanding of how research methods developed, and how their truth criteria, and what is accepted as knowledge, spring from human history. Research is often reduced to data collection, results and publication in the stressful, results-oriented academic environment. But research is a human enterprise, a product of both individual creativity and historical, political and social conditions. This book will focus on how shared research criteria (as we know them today) were developed through the work and thought of philosophers, social activists and researchers. This book will be useful for graduate and post-graduate students, particularly those studying Research Methods, and Philosophy of Science courses; and for experienced social science researchers who wish to understand how research methods have developed in human history.