LEADER 03990nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910789965303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-12742-2 010 $a9786613531308 010 $a2-86978-516-X 010 $a2-86978-515-1 010 $a2-86978-517-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000160349 035 $a(EBL)1134925 035 $a(OCoLC)824114553 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000621924 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11407595 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000621924 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10637749 035 $a(PQKB)10924085 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1134925 035 $a(OCoLC)781785705 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21984 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1134925 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10555064 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL353130 035 $a(PPN)187339783 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000160349 100 $a20120306d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aReadings in methodology$b[electronic resource] $eAfrican perspectives /$fedited by Jean-Bernard Oue?draogo, Carlos Cardoso 210 $aDakar $cCodesria$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (310 p.) 225 1 $aCodesria book series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a2-86978-483-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; 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 Sciences 327 $a4. 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 Research 327 $a11. 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 cover 330 $aOne of the weaknesses of research in Africa is the little consideration that is given to questions of epistemology and methodology. What we see is the trivialization of research protocols which, consequently, are reduced to fantasy prescriptions that detach social studies from universal debates over the validity of science rather than an interrogation of research procedures induced by the complexity of social dynamics. As a result, social sciences have become an imitative discourse and a recital of exotic anecdotes without perspectives. Knowledge production therefore loses any heuristic bearin 410 0$aCodesria book series. 606 $aSocial sciences$xResearch 606 $aSocial sciences$xMethodology 615 0$aSocial sciences$xResearch. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xMethodology. 676 $a300.7206 701 $aOue?draogo$b Jean-Bernard$f1958-$01505906 701 $aCardoso$b Carlos$01505907 712 02$aCodesria. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789965303321 996 $aReadings in methodology$93735872 997 $aUNINA