LEADER 03971nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910305556703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15813-9 010 $a9786612158131 010 $a1-4008-2690-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826902 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788483 035 $a(EBL)457908 035 $a(OCoLC)438753607 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000156000 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11159499 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000156000 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10122722 035 $a(PQKB)10156784 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36178 035 $a(DE-B1597)446350 035 $a(OCoLC)979779236 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826902 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457908 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312576 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215813 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457908 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788483 100 $a20041101d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe flight from reality in the human sciences /$fIan Shapiro 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (235 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12057-9 311 $a0-691-13401-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFear of not flying -- The difference that realism makes : social science and the politics of consent / Ian Shapiro and Alexander Wendt -- Revisiting the pathologies of rational choice / Donald Green and Ian Shapiro -- Richard Posner's praxis -- Gross concepts in political argument -- Problems, methods, and theories in the study of politics : or, what's wrong with political science and what to do about it -- The political science discipline: a comment on David Laitin. 330 $aIn this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, scholars have fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from--and perpetuates--a flight from reality. In the method-driven academic culture we inhabit, argues Shapiro, researchers too often make display and refinement of their techniques the principal scholarly activity. The result is that they lose sight of the objects of their study. Pet theories and methodological blinders lead unwelcome facts to be ignored, sometimes not even perceived. The targets of Shapiro's critique include the law and economics movement, overzealous formal and statistical modeling, various reductive theories of human behavior, misguided conceptual analysis in political theory, and the Cambridge school of intellectual history. As an alternative to all of these, Shapiro makes a compelling case for problem-driven social research, rooted in a realist philosophy of science and an antireductionist view of social explanation. In the lucid--if biting--prose for which Shapiro is renowned, he explains why this requires greater critical attention to how problems are specified than is usually undertaken. He illustrates what is at stake for the study of power, democracy, law, and ideology, as well as in normative debates over rights, justice, freedom, virtue, and community. Shapiro answers many critics of his views along the way, securing his position as one of the distinctive social and political theorists of our time. 606 $aSocial sciences$xMethodology 615 0$aSocial sciences$xMethodology. 676 $a300/.1 700 $aShapiro$b Ian$0549030 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910305556703321 996 $aThe flight from reality in the human sciences$91923391 997 $aUNINA