1. Morality And The Social Sciences: A Durable Tension

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Contributors IX
4. Preface XIII
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Disciplinary Critiques
7. 1. Morality And The Social Sciences: A Durable Tension 21
8. 2. Do the Social Sciences Have an Adequate Theory of Moral Development? 33
9. 3. Humanism as Nihilism: The Bracketing of Truth and Seriousness in American Cultural Anthropology 52
10. 4. Moral/Analytic Dilemmas Posed by the Intersection of Feminism and Social Science 76
11. 5. Want Formation, Morality, and Some Interpretive Aspects of Economic Inquiry 96
12. 6. History: Ethics, Science, and Fiction 125
13. Part II. Issues of Foundation
14. 7. Method and Morality 155
15. 8. Withering Norms: Deconstructing the Foundation of the Social Sciences 177
16. 9. Beyond Interpretation: Human Agency and the Slovenly Wilderness 195
17. 10. An Interactional Morality of Everyday Life 218
18. 11. Interpretive Social Science vs. Hermeneuticism 251
19. Part III. Social Applications and Social Policy
20. 12. Reflections on the Form and Content of Social Science: Toward a Consciously Political and Moral Social Science 273
21. 13. Beyond Policy Science: The Social Sciences as Moral Sciences 297
22. 14. Believing in Social Science: The Ethics and Epistemology of Public Opinion Research 320
23. 15. Moral Commitment, Privatism, and Activism: Notes on a Research Program 343
24. 16. The Ethical Aims of Social Inquiry 360
25. Index 383