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Published: 11 March 2010
... objectives—to the extent that they have clear objectives. Adler H G Arendt Hannah Aron and Gurian Waldemar Hughes Everett C Ideal types Parsons Talcott Review of Politics journal Social sciences Arendt and Voegelin Eric Weber Max Comte Auguste Durkheim Emile Merton Robert Islam and anti Semitism...
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Moral Philosophy and Social Science
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Philip Selznick
Published: 08 August 2008
...This chapter examines the relationship between social science and moral philosophy. Philosophy analyzes ideas and purported fundamental attributes of the self; social science studies varieties, contexts, and enabling or disabling conditions. The chapter focuses on naturalism in ethics...
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A Public Philosophy
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Philip Selznick
Published: 08 August 2008
...This chapter examines some major strands of public philosophy, which include freedom and human nature, kinship and identity, individualism and human relations, nurture and discipline, pluralism and civil society, and moral realism. It analyzes themes in the public philosophy of social science...
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Published online: 20 June 2013
Published in print: 13 February 2008
... of John Dewey and William James, and for a rejection of the postmodern critique of critical legal studies. The book discusses the two movements with respect to three topics: their view of history, their view of social science, and their view of language. Rejecting the claim that critical legal studies can...
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A Tale of Two Movements
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Wouter de Been
Published: 13 February 2008
... the inspiration for the critical legal studies movement from the 1970s onward. It presents the central premise of the study: legal realism and CLS are not continuous bodies of thought. Finally, the chapter identifies three issues that help clarify this central premise of the study: historicism, social science...
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Published: 23 May 2012
....” Central to this large enterprise is “to recast jurisprudential issues in a social-science perspective.” The book is also an attempt to respond to challenges to the legitimacy of law that had emerged in America, and elsewhere in the developed world, most dramatically in the 1960s. Boalt Hall Law School...
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The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt
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Omnia El Shakry
Published online: 20 June 2013
Published in print: 29 October 2007
...This book charts the development of the human sciences—anthropology, human geography, and demography—in late nineteenth-and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production, it examines social science through a broad range of texts...
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The Postulate of Humanity
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Philip Selznick
Published: 08 August 2008
... studies of delinquency and other forms of deviance in modern sociology. The postulate has been a major theme in the history of the social sciences and shows how those disciplines connect to the humanities. In the twentieth century that humanist voice was stilled by a dominant “scientism.” Nevertheless...
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Published: 13 February 2008
...This chapter discusses the realist adoption of social science, starting with the definition of legal realism by Karl Llewellyn. Llewellyn's description of the realist approach is then related to the work of other realists. The chapter also discusses functionalism and argues that it cannot...
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Published: 13 February 2008
...Scholars of critical legal studies (CLS) have been severely skeptic on the realist adoption of social science in law, arguing that social science is just as inconclusive and politically loaded as legal doctrine. This chapter discusses these arguments in greater detail and compares them...
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Looking at Information Security Through an Interdisciplinary Lens: Computer Science as a Social Science: Applications to Computer Security
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Jonathan Pincus and others
Published: 06 October 2009
...This chapter argues for a multidisciplinary perspective in analyzing information security. Developing the best information security practices requires broadening the scope of current perspectives on information security. Although computer science is not traditionally viewed as a social science...
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The Quality of Culture
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Philip Selznick
Published: 08 August 2008
... culture vs biology ethnicity human nature human virtues and conflicts humility Kroeber Alfred on culture quality respect social science contribution to human well being values aesthetic values humanities relationship to social science Sapir Edward on culture alienation coherence cooperation...
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The Private Argument between Chester Barnard and Herbert Simon about the Boundaries of Management Science
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Ellen O'Connor
Published: 07 December 2011
... to develop the new science's governing principles, however, he based his work mainly on one text and his experience with it: Barnard's The Functions of the Executive . According to Barnard's epistemology of applied social science, each new science demarcates a new field that is different from...
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Realizing Realism: Reconstruction in Legal Theory
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Wouter de Been
Published: 13 February 2008
...This chapter addresses the question where realism is in need of reconstruction by scholars of critical legal studies (CLS). It begins by discussing the revival of pragmatism and then outlines legal realist views on law and history, law and social science and law and language in relation...
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The Rule of Law: Expansion
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Martin Krygier
Published: 23 May 2012
... Conflict dynamic significance of Legitimacy legal evolution and Social science and sociology as academic disciplines Personal development analogous to organizational development Self restraint Autonomy civility and Durkheim Emile Follett Mary Parker Mead George Herbert Piaget Jean Rationalization...