04024nam 2200709Ia 450 991046124390332120200520144314.01-280-12742-297866135313082-86978-516-X2-86978-515-12-86978-517-8(CKB)2670000000160349(EBL)1134925(OCoLC)824114553(SSID)ssj0000621924(PQKBManifestationID)11407595(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000621924(PQKBWorkID)10637749(PQKB)10924085(MiAaPQ)EBC1134925(OCoLC)781785705(MdBmJHUP)muse21984(PPN)187339783(Au-PeEL)EBL1134925(CaPaEBR)ebr10555064(CaONFJC)MIL353130(EXLCZ)99267000000016034920120306d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReadings in methodology[electronic resource] African perspectives /edited by Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo, Carlos CardosoDakar Codesria20111 online resource (310 p.)Codesria book seriesDescription based upon print version of record.2-86978-483-X Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Questions of Method; PART ONE - SOCIAL REASONS FOR SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE; 1. Pragmatism as a Vision of the World and as a Method: A Philosophical Examination of the Challenges Presented to Contemporary Social Research by Subjective Idealism; 2. The Alchemis and the Apprentice Myth-Hunter, Comments on Social Engineering in African Social Sciences; PART TWO - LOGICS OF DISCOVERY; 3. An Introduction to the Epistemology of the Social Sciences4. Reasons and Causes: Wittgenstein versus The Myth of Causal Explanation in the Social Sciences5. Scientific Logics and Methodologies; 6. Construction of the Subject as a Practice of Clarification of Social Relationships; PART THREE - CONTEXTUAL DETERMINATIONS; 7. Moroccan Sociology: Epistemological Preliminaries; 8. Autochthones Making their Realities Strange in Order to Better Understand Them; PART FOUR - TOOLS FOR INVESTIGATION; 9. Life History and the Writing of Ethnography: The Case of Morocco; 10. Audiovisual Instruments in Ethnographic Research11. Establishing an Observation, Producing a Discourse, Illustrating Results Possibilities for the Photographic Tool12. Comparison: A foundational Approach in the Social Sciences; PART FIVE - WRITING AND RESEARCH; 13. Writing in the Social Sciences: From Field Notes to Scientific Reports; Back coverOne of the weaknesses of research in Africa is the little consideration that is given to questions of epistemology and methodology. What we see is the trivialization of research protocols which, consequently, are reduced to fantasy prescriptions that detach social studies from universal debates over the validity of science rather than an interrogation of research procedures induced by the complexity of social dynamics. As a result, social sciences have become an imitative discourse and a recital of exotic anecdotes without perspectives. Knowledge production therefore loses any heuristic bearinCodesria book series.Social sciencesResearchSocial sciencesMethodologyElectronic books.Social sciencesResearch.Social sciencesMethodology.300.7206Ouédraogo Jean-Bernard1958-1036938Cardoso Carlos1043034Codesria.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461243903321Readings in methodology2467731UNINA