The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences : Positivism and Its Epistemological Others

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1(58) Positivism and Its Others in the Social Sciences George Steinmetz PART ONE. Positivism and Nonpositivism in Twentieth-Century Social Science Anthropology 59(30) Estrangement, Intimacy, and the Objects of Anthropology Webb Keane Area Studies/Asian Studies 89(37) The Trick of Words: Asian Studies, Translation, and the Problems of Knowledge Michael Dutton Economics 126(16) Economists and the Economy in the Twentieth Century Timothy Mitchell Economics / Philosophy of Science 142(31) How Positivism Made a Pact with the Postwar Social Sciences in the United States Philip Mirowski History 173(34) The Political Unconscious of Social and Cultural History, or, Confessions of a Former Quantitative Historian William H. Sewell Jr. Political Science/Political Theory 207(26) Defining ``Theory'' in Postwar Political Science Emily Hauptmann Sociology and Economics 233(42) Beware Trojan Horses Bearing Social Capital: How Privatization Turned Solidarity into a Bowling Team Margaret R. Somers Sociology 275(52) Scientific Authority and the Transition to Post-Fordism: The Plausibility of Positivism in U.S. Sociology since 1945 George Steinmetz PART TWO. Alternatives to Positivism in the Human Sciences Philosophy and Critical Realism 327(19) Critical Realism Andrew Collier Philosophy and Standpoint Theory 346(20) Negotiating with the Positivist Legacy: New Social Justice Movements and a Standpoint Politics of Method Sandra Harding Economics and Critical Realism 366(27) A Perspective on Modern Economics Tony Lawson Process and Temporality in Sociology 393(34) The Idea of Outcome in U.S. Sociology Andrew Abbott Psychoanalysis as Critique 427(24) Psychoanalysis and the Theory of the Subject Anthony Elliott Sociology of Science 451(19) The Real and the Imaginary in Economic Methodology Daniel Breslau Making Sense in and of Political Science 470(26) Facts, Values, and ``Real'' Numbers Sophia Mihic Stephen G. Engelmann Elizabeth Rose Wingrove Being Undisciplined 496(12) On Your Marx: From Cultural History to the History of Society Geoff Eley Conclusion 508(19) Provincializing the Social Sciences Michael Burawoy References 527(56) Contributors 583(4) Index 587(20) Citation Index 607