A Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human SciencesUniversity of Chicago Press, 7 mars 1989 - 302 pages For too long, argues Richard Harvey Brown, social scientists have felt forced to choose between imitating science's empirical methodology and impersonating a romantic notion of art, the methods of which are seen as primarily a matter of intuition, interpretation, and opinion. Developing the idea of a "cognitive aesthetic," Brown shows how both science and art—as well as the human studies that stand between them—depend on metaphoric thinking as their "logic of discovery" and may be assessed in terms of such aesthetic criteria of adequacy as economy, elegance, originality, scope, congruence, and form. By recognizing this "aesthetic" common ground between science and art, Brown demonstrates that a fusion can be achieved within the human sciences of these two principal ideals of knowledge—the scientific or positivist one and the artistic or intuitive one. A path, then, is opened for creating a knowledge of ourselves and society which is at once objective and subjective, at once valid scientifically and significantly humane. |
Table des matières
an invitation | 1 |
symbolic realism and perspective knowledge | 24 |
3 Point of view | 49 |
4 Metaphor | 77 |
5 Irony | 172 |
6 Coda | 221 |
Notes | 235 |
Bibliography | 266 |
295 | |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
action actors aesthetic aesthetic distance American analysis Aristotle artistic assumptions aware basic becomes behavior Chicago cognitive concept conduct consciousness criteria critical culture Descartes dialectical discourse distance domain domain of discourse dramatic elaborated empiricism epistemology essay ethnomethodology example existential experience explain expression fact formal Free Press function functionalist Goffman Harold Garfinkel human humanistic sociology iconic interaction interpretation ironic irony isomorphism Kingsley Davis knowledge language logical mathematical meaning Merton metaphor method moral nature neopositivism objective observation overseas Chinese paradigm perception persons perspective Phenomenology Philosophy poetic point of view political positivism positivist possible problem question rationality reality reference relation relationship role root metaphors rules says scientific scientific realism scientists seen sense situation social science social theory society sociological theory sociologist sociology Sorokin speak speech structure symbolic interactionism theoretical things thought tion trans truth understand University York