Theoretical Self-Consciousness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6357183 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William E Connolly (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-35 |
| Publication date | 1973-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3234180 |
| OpenAlex | W2324514723 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
This thoughtful essay is in the sociology of (political science) knowledge provocatively charts the boundaries of truth. Normative appraisal and explanatory theory are closely interrelated, Connolly argues, as he indicates the normative implications generated by consensus and conflict perspectives. He notes the difficulty of communicating across different perspectives, urges the responsibility of the social scientist to achieve selfconsciousness about his own and competing theories, and argues tentatively (though some readers may rebel vigorously, despite the author's decent modesty) for giving a certain benefit of the doubt, in instances where the available evidence is inconclusive, to the more optimistic assumption about human nature, because of the practical consequences of the assumptions we make
Consciousness · Epistemology · Normative · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Science Research and Education
Metatheorizing in Sociology
Marxism as a Way of Seeing
Author's Response
A Sociological Approach to World Hunger
Normative Assumptions in Educational Policy Research
Political Theory, Policy Analysis, and the Insoluble Problems of Criminal Justice
Theorizing Politics, Politicizing Theory, and the Responsibility That Runs Between
Sociological Metatheory
Metatheory, Metamethod, Meta-Data-Analysis
Partial Paradigm Shifts in the Social Sciences
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1974 - 2009 (36) |
| Highly cited | No |