"Social science is explanation or it is nothing." Introduction to a debate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5609526 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Krause (0000-0002-8699-5496, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-4446.13100 |
| PMID | 39305016 |
| OpenAlex | W4402711274 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 41 |
This essay introduces contributions to a special section, which documents and extends a debate on the proposition "Social Science is Explanation or it is Nothing" held at the London School of Economics on October 13th, 2022. It discusses the history of the "Group for Theoretical Debates in Anthropology" led by Tim Ingold, Peter Wade and Soumhya Venkatesan, which has handed down a list of credible candidates for issues that had a chance of engaging every anthropologist, including students and those with interdisciplinary interests. It raises questions about the specific affordances of debates as forms of academic engagements. It argues that the chosen proposition concerning explanation invites a discussion about the contributions of the social sciences at a time when impulses from science and technology studies as well as fruitful exchanges across the boundary between "theory" and "method" have helped us moved beyond the older question as to whether or not sociology is "a science
Affordance · Epistemology · Nothing · Proposition · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Philosophy · Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Abductive Analysis
Practising Comparison
Laocoon
Fairness and fluency
London Debating Societies in the 1790s
Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University
Key Debates in Anthropology
The structural transformation of the public sphere
Implication Analysis
Gütekriterien qualitativer Sozialforschung. Ein Diskussionsanstoß
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The media of sociology
Before theory comes theorizing or how to make social science more interesting
Articulation, or the persistent problem with explanation
Epistemic Cultures
Epistemic Cultures
Transcending General Linear Reality
How many cases do I need
On Sociological Reflexivity
Theory Construction in Qualitative Research
There is no such thing as the good
The Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDAT), The University of Manchester
The task of anthropology is to invent relations
The anthropological fixation with reciprocity leaves no room for love
Ontology Is Just Another Word for Culture
Making Things Possible
The concept of neoliberalism has become an obstacle to the anthropological understanding of the twenty-first century
Styles of Causal Thought
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |