دانلود کتاب Elucidating Social Science Concepts: An Interpretivist Guide

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Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Series Editors’ Foreword
Preface
1 Why Do Concepts Need Elucidating?
Positivism and Interpretivism
Experience-Distant and Experience-Near Concepts
Positivist Reconstruction versus Interpretivist Elucidation
An Example of Positivist Reconstruction: “Family”
An Interpretivist Appraisal
Interpretivist Questions about “Family”
Modes of Elucidation: Grounding, Locating, and Exposing
2 Grounding: Elucidating How People Understand a Concept
Wittgensteinian Starting Points
Lessons for Grounding
Investigating Grammar
Investigating Grammar Ethnographically
Conclusion
3 Locating: Elucidating Historical and Linguistic Specificity
The Trouble with Geertz on “Person” in Translation
Mapping Family Resemblances across Languages
The Trouble with Skinner on “Originality” in History
Paying Attention to Historical Rupture
Borges’ Challenge
4 Exposing: Elucidating Power
Concepts as Instruments of Power
Laying Bare the Forces and Effects of Speech Acts
Concepts as Legacies of Power
Rediscovering Struggle Genealogically
Conclusion
5 The Ethics of Elucidating
The Value of Making the Unseen Seen
The Value of Seeing Ourselves in a New Light
The Value of Feeling
The Dangers of Elucidation
Embracing an Ethic of Responsibility
References
Index