附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-307) and index.
Preliminaries; Contents; Tables and figures; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Introduction: the Third Path; Part I Formative discourses; 2 Value discourse and the object of inquiry; 3 Narrative cultures and inquiry; 4 The conceptual possibilities of social theoretical discourse; 5 The core of explanation and interpretation as formative discourse; Part II Practices of inquiry; 6 Discursive hybrids of practice: an introductory schema; 7 Generalizing practices of inquiry; 8 Particularizing practices of inquiry; 9 The prospects for inquiry; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
摘要:Cultures of Inquiry provides a unique overview of research methodologies in social science, historical and cultural studies. Describing eight interconnected methodologies that transcend present-day disciplinary and interdisciplinary boundaries, it moves beyond the objectivism/relativism debate in the philosophy and sociology of knowledge by showing how alternative research practices are formed.
