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Chargement... The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophypar Peter Winch
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In the fiftieth anniversary of this book¿s first release, Winch¿s argument remains as crucial as ever. Originally published in 1958, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy was a landmark exploration of the social sciences, written at a time when that field was still young and had not yet joined the Humanities and the Natural Sciences as the third great domain of the Academy. A passionate defender of the importance of philosophy to a full understanding of 'society' against those who would deem it an irrelevant 'ivory towers' pursuit, Winch draws from the works of such thinkers as Ludwig Wittgenstein, J.S. Mill and Max Weber to make his case. In so doing he addresses the possibility and practice of a comprehensive 'science of society'. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Instead of claiming that rigorous standards of objectivity and testing in line with classic scientific principles were key to the future of sociology, Winch drew closer parallels with philosophy. He famously posits in this book that to attempt to understand humans as objects, as things interacting with each other with no sense of agency, was to not understand them at all. This was the stance from which he constructed his argument, drawing largely from the works of Wittgenstein.
Sociology has moved on a long way since the publication of this book, and so did Winch himself. Indeed in a preface written for a later edition of the book, he made it clear that he had learned to think differently on the matters he had written about with such passion. Nonetheless, this is still a very important book to sociology, and we no doubt owe a certain amount to Winch for shaking the ivory tower for us. ( )