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Lively Science : Remodeling Human Social Research.
Title:
Lively Science : Remodeling Human Social Research.
Author:
Agar, Michael.
ISBN:
9781626521049
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (286 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Preface: Getting in a Book Mood -- Chapter One: Behavioral/Social Science-An Oxymoron? -- Human Social Science -- The Fork in the Road -- A Trailer for the Movie -- HSR Ascendant in the Real World -- Where Book Titles Come From -- Chapter Two: Experiments and Real Worlds -- The Logic -- Out of the Lab -- Buying a Car -- Ecological Validity -- The Heartbreak of Timeless Reduction -- Reductionism -- Pattern on Drugs -- Cause -- Paths Taken, and Not -- Mill: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly -- An HSR Parable -- Chapter Three: The Road to HSR Is Paved with Everyday Intentions -- A Fallen Jesuit -- Intentionality -- Intention and Purpose -- Research Handles to Get a Grip on Intentions -- Rational Reconstruction -- An Example -- Anglos and Saxons -- The Birth of the Human Sciences -- The Dismal BSS Sciences -- Same, Different, and a Little of Both -- An Example of How BSS Misses a LP -- Time on Our Side -- Is Reality a Dream? -- Reality is Kicking a Rock -- Dilthey's Long Ride. -- What is Human Social Research About? -- Chapter Four: Taking HSR to Court -- The Anglo-German Hybrid -- The Courtroom Model -- Human Social Science: Land of Contrasts -- HSR and Qualitative -- Intersubjectivity -- An Un-Reliable Science -- Writing the Results -- Chapter Five: The Heartbreak of Monotony -- Where Do New Ideas Come From? -- An Abductive Parable -- Abduction in Action -- HSR Logic -- Chapter Six: When Researcher Meets Subject -- The "M" and "C" Words -- Language -- Translation -- Getting From Here To There -- Translation as Intersubjective Science -- Crossing a Languaculture Canyon -- The Space Between -- An Example of Universal Progress: An Anthropologist's Epiphany -- The Universal Person -- When Is a Theory Not a Theory? -- Chapter Seven: Human Social Science -- The Man Who Shocked the World -- The Experiment -- Back to Human Universals.

No Researcher Before His Time -- In Whose Interests? -- Exactly Who and Why -- The Jewish Nun -- The End -- Chapter Notes.
Abstract:
Wonder why studies you read about your world usually don't get who you are and how you really live? Frustrated that "the numbers" don't solve the problem? Does it bother you that policies and programs, more often than not, don't work like they're supposed to?  People, organizations, countries-they rely on information about real human social lives. Usually they don't have it because they only test what they think they already know in narrow situations of their own design. The results have value, some of the time, but it's not nearly enough. We need a human social science that begins and ends in the real worlds of the humans that it claims to be about. One has been around for a couple of hundred years. The Lively Science tells the story of its historical roots and the reasons for its neglect and argues that it's time to get on with a science that changes research objects into human subjects and learns who they are and what they're trying to do before conclusions are drawn.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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