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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Why Do Concepts Need Elucidating?
• Positivism and Interpretivism
• Experience-Distant and Experience-Near Concepts
• Positivist Reconstruction versus Interpretivist Elucidation
• Example of Positivist Reconstruction: "Family"
• Interpretivist Appraisal
• Interpretivist Questions about "Family"
• Modes of Elucidation: Grounding, Locating, and Exposing
• 2. Grounding: Elucidating How People Understand a Concept
• Wittgensteinian Starting Points
• Lessons for Grounding
• Investigating Grammar
• Investigating Grammar Ethnographically
• Conclusion
• 3. Locating: Elucidating Historical and Linguistic Specificity
• Trouble with Geertz on "Person" in Translation
• Mapping Family Resemblances across Languages
• Trouble with Skinner on "Originality" in History
• Paying Attention to Historical Rupture
• Borges' Challenge

• 4. Exposing: Elucidating Power
• Concepts as Instruments of Power
• Laying Bare the Forces and Effects of Speech Acts
• Concepts as Legacies of Power
• Rediscovering Struggle Genealogically
• Conclusion
• 5. Ethics of Elucidating
• Value of Making the Unseen Seen
• Value of Seeing Ourselves in a New Light
• Value of Feeling
• Dangers of Elucidation
• Embracing an Ethic of Responsibility.

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Author/Creator:

Schaffer, Frederic Charles , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Elucidating social science concepts: an interpretivist guide [by Schaffer, F.C.]

Related Series:

Routledge series on interpretive methods

Subjects:

Social sciences — Philosophy

Social sciences — Methodology

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

H61 .S3546 2016eb

ISBNs:

9780203814932 (electronic bk.)
0203814932 (electronic bk.)
9780415893244 [Invalid]
0415893240 [Invalid]
9780415893268 [Invalid]
0415893267 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

914472348

Other Control Numbers:

EBC3570070 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12548152