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1990
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED340660 |
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- Knowledge and Method in the Human Sciences. HSRC Series in Methodology. Mouton, Johann, Ed. Joubert, Dian, Ed. Foreign Countries Research Methodology Scholarship Social Science Research Social Sciences Social Scientists Social Theories Issues and themes in the contemporary social sciences are explored in a collection of papers by South African scholars. Thirty-five papers are organized by 10 themes. The first theme, metatheory in the social sciences, includes: "Beyond Relativism in the Natural and Social Sciences" (M. Hesse); and "A Critique of Bhaskar's Transformational Model of Social Activity" (R. Miller). The second theme, which covers recent trends in specific disciplines, includes: "Recent Trends in Psychological Methodology" (P. du Preez). The third theme, interpretation and rationality, includes: "Linguistic Models and Hermeneutics Methods: Rethinking Dilthey through Gadamer and Ricoeur" (T. Louw). The fourth theme, morality and ethics in the practice of social research, includes: "State Censorship, Research in the Human Sciences and Library Resources in South Africa" (C. Merrett). The fifth theme, cultural and media studies, includes: "Paradigms in Media Research" (P. Fourie). The sixth theme, discourses and power, includes: "Is Foucault's Project a Nihilistic One?" (C. Frigerio); and "Discourses on Childhood Sexual Abuse" (A. Levett). The seventh theme phenomenological and other qualitative views, includes: "Research and Reality: How Clinical Theory and Practice are Actually Developed--Case Study Method in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy" (D. Edwards); and "There's Method in Our Madness: A Deconstruction of the Paradigm Problem through Psychopathology" (S. O'Dowd). The eighth theme, issues of conceptualization in the study of government and law, includes: "Theoretical Approaches to the Study of State Bureaucracies: Some Preliminary Distinctions" (D. Atkinson); and "Rights-relativism in Afrikanerdom: Van Warmelo's Sociologism" (J. Hund). The ninth theme, understanding and explanation in anthropology, includes: "Understanding Other Societies through Anthropology" (P. A. Erasmus). The 10th theme, paradigmatic shifts in geography, planning theory and archaeology, includes: "Method in Archaeology: The Selfish Gene in the Prehistoric Mediterranean" (Z. van Straaten). (DB)