A Brief History of Knowledge for Social Science Researchers Before Method

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, politica...

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Main Author Court, Deborah
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Routledge 2020
Taylor and Francis
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
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
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ISBN9780367370794
0367370794
DOI10.4324/9780429352607

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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 How Can We Think about Research? A Gallery of Heroes -- 2 Epistemology and its Relevance to Research -- 3 A Historical Sketch of knowledge in the Western world: the Greeks through the Middle Ages -- 4 A Historical Sketch of knowledge in the Western world: from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment -- 5 A Historical Sketch of knowledge in the Western world: from the Enlightenment onward -- 6 Are we there yet? The birth and development of the social sciences -- 7 How Can We Think about theory? A gallery of heroes -- 8 A Brief History of knowledge, and the vistas beyond -- Index