Ways of knowing
Subtitle: competing methodologies and methods in social and political research
By: Jonathon W. Moses and Torbjørn L. Knutsen.
Contributors: Knutsen, Torbjørn L.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Social sciences -- Methodology; Social sciences -- Comparative method; Social sciences -- Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Philosophy of naturalist science; title: The experimental method; title: The statistical method; title: The comparative method; title: History and case studies; title: Sowing doubts about the naturalist methodology; title: A constructivist philosophy of science; title: From story telling to telling histories; title: Comparing interpretations; title: Contextualizing statistics; title: Interpretive experiments; title: Conclusion.