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Author : Donald V. Gawronski
Publisher : Scott Foresman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book History: Meaning and Method written by Donald V. Gawronski and published by Scott Foresman. This book was released on 1967 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isaac Reed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317256239
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Meaning and Method written by Isaac Reed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture is increasingly important to American social science, but in what way? This book addresses the core issues of the sociology of culture-questions about the social role of meaning, along with those about the methods sociologists use to study culture and society-in a manner that makes clear their relevance to sociology as a whole. Part I consists of essays by leading cultural sociologists on how the turn to culture has changed the sociological study of organizations, economic action, and television, and concludes with Georgina Born's methodological statement on the sociology of art and cultural production. Part II contains a highly original, and at times heated, debate between Richard Biernacki and John H. Evans on the appropriateness of abstract and quantifiable coding schemes for the sociological study of culture. Ranging from the philosophy of science to the concrete, practical problems of interpreting masses of cultural data, the debate raises the controversy over the interpretation of culture and the explanation of social action to a new level of sophistication.
Author : Meghan Sullivan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984880322
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Good Life Method written by Meghan Sullivan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Philosophers Ask and Answer the Big Questions About the Search for Faith and Happiness For seekers of all stripes, philosophy is timeless self-care. Notre Dame philosophy professors Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko have reinvigorated this tradition in their wildly popular and influential undergraduate course “God and the Good Life,” in which they wrestle with the big questions about how to live and what makes life meaningful. Now they invite us into the classroom to work through issues like what justifies our beliefs, whether we should practice a religion and what sacrifices we should make for others—as well as to investigate what figures such as Aristotle, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Iris Murdoch, and W. E. B. Du Bois have to say about how to live well. Sullivan and Blaschko do the timeless work of philosophy using real-world case studies that explore love, finance, truth, and more. In so doing, they push us to escape our own caves, ask stronger questions, explain our deepest goals, and wrestle with suffering, the nature of death, and the existence of God. Philosophers know that our “good life plan” is one that we as individuals need to be constantly and actively writing to achieve some meaningful control and sense of purpose even if the world keeps throwing surprises our way. For at least the past 2,500 years, philosophers have taught that goal-seeking is an essential part of what it is to be human—and crucially that we could find our own good life by asking better questions of ourselves and of one another. This virtue ethics approach resonates profoundly in our own moment. The Good Life Method is a winning guide to tackling the big questions of being human with the wisdom of the ages.
Author : Earl W. Stevick
Publisher : Newbury House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memory, Meaning & Method written by Earl W. Stevick and published by Newbury House. This book was released on 1976 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul A. Roth
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501746219
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Meaning and Method in the Social Sciences written by Paul A. Roth and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul A Roth's book examines an important controversy in the philosophy of the social sciences that has developed since the demise of logical positivism and its conception of rationality. Roth contends that this controversy—a dispute over the canons of rationality—is the product of the mistaken belief in methodological exclusivism. Drawing on work in contemporary epistemology by W. V. O. Quine, Richard Rorty, and Paul Feyerabend, he argues that no single theory of human behavior has methodological priority; indeed, the existence of a plethora of theories for the study of human behavior, he believes, is an inevitable consequence of our epistemic situation.
Author : Howard Schuman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674028272
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (282 download)
Download or read book Method and Meaning in Polls and Surveys written by Howard Schuman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Schuman is one of the premier scholars of social surveys. His expertise concerns the way questions about attitudes and beliefs are worded and the effects questions have on the answers people give. However, Method and Meaning in Polls and Surveys is less about the substance of wording effects and more about approaches to interpreting the respondentâe(tm)s world, and how surveys can make that world understandableâe"though often in ways not anticipated by the researcher. Schuman examines the question-answer process that is basic to polls and surveys, as it is in so much of life. His concern is with the nature of questioning itself, with issues of validity and bias, and with the scope and limitations of meaning sought through polls and surveys. Writing with both wisdom and humor, Schuman considers the issues both at a theoretical level, bringing in ideas from other social sciences, and empirically with substantive research of his own and others. The book will be of interest to social scientists, to survey researchers in academia and business, and to all those concerned with the pervasive influence of polls in society.
Author : Anders Nygren
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606087703
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Meaning and Method written by Anders Nygren and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-18 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished Scandinavian scholar has undertaken a fresh study of themes he examined in earlier writings. Meaning and Method contains the results of Nygren's lifetime of thought, addressed to the most fundamental concerns of philosophy and theology. In this book Anders Nygren delves into these and other questions: What is the meaning of meaning? What are we to do when one person declares meaningless what another finds supremely meaningful? Is there any way of knowing which is right? Can we arrive at a common understanding of what is meaningful? The author contends that contemporary philosophy does point to such a common understanding. Philosophy, as put forth by Nygren, involves a recognition of diverse contexts of meaning. Through philosophy we can also develop a method by which the validity of these contexts may be scientifically tested. Nygren shows that the debate about the meaningfulness of religious language is not insoluble. He further establishes the scientific status of the two disciplines concerned with religious language--theology and the philosophy of religion. The author's approach calls for drastic revision in these disciplines, and he indicates many new directions for future work in them. Students and specialists will be fascinated by Nygren's own account of the philosophical ideas undergirding his theological work. This book also makes a major contribution to today's questions in both philosophy and theology.
Author : Isaac Reed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317256220
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Meaning and Method written by Isaac Reed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture is increasingly important to American social science, but in what way? This book addresses the core issues of the sociology of culture-questions about the social role of meaning, along with those about the methods sociologists use to study culture and society-in a manner that makes clear their relevance to sociology as a whole. Part I consists of essays by leading cultural sociologists on how the turn to culture has changed the sociological study of organizations, economic action, and television, and concludes with Georgina Born's methodological statement on the sociology of art and cultural production. Part II contains a highly original, and at times heated, debate between Richard Biernacki and John H. Evans on the appropriateness of abstract and quantifiable coding schemes for the sociological study of culture. Ranging from the philosophy of science to the concrete, practical problems of interpreting masses of cultural data, the debate raises the controversy over the interpretation of culture and the explanation of social action to a new level of sophistication.
Author : George Boolos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521360838
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Meaning and Method written by George Boolos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a report on the state of philosophy in a number of significant areas.
Author : Andrew Beards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501318683
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Lonergan, Meaning and Method written by Andrew Beards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Lonergan (1904-84) is acknowledged as one of the most significant philosopher-theologians of the 20th century. Lonergan, Meaning and Method in many ways complements Andrew Beards' previous book on Lonergan, Insight and Analysis (Bloomsbury, 2010). Andrew Beards applies Lonergan's thought and brings it into critical dialogue and discussion with other contemporary philosophical interlocutors, principally from the analytical tradition. He also introduces themes and arguments from the continental tradition, as well as offering interpretative analysis of some central notions in Lonergan's thought that are of interest to all who wish to understand the importance of Lonergan's work for philosophy and Christian theology. Three of the chapters focus upon areas of fruitful exchange and debate between Lonergan's thought and the work of three major figures in current analytical philosophy: Nancy Cartwright, Timothy Williamson and Scott Soames. The discussion also ranges across such topics as meaning theory, metaphilosophy, epistemology, philosophy of science and aesthetics.
Author : Catherine Cornille
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119535220
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology written by Catherine Cornille and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic overview of the field of comparative theology Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology offers a synthesis of and a blueprint for the emerging field of comparative theology. It discusses various approaches to the field, the impact of religious views of other religions on the way in which comparative theology is conducted, and the particularities of comparative theological hermeneutics. It also provides an overview of the types of learning and of the importance of comparative theology for traditional confessional theology. Though drawing mainly from examples of Christian comparative theology, the book presents a methodological framework that may be applied to any religious tradition. Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology begins with an elaboration on the basic distinction between confessional and meta-confessional approaches to comparative theology. The book also identifies and examines six possible types of comparative theological learning and addresses various questions regarding the relationship between comparative and confessional theology. Provides a unique and objective look at the field of comparative theology for scholars of religion and theologians who want to understand or situate their work within the broader field Contains methodological questions and approaches that apply to comparative theologians from any religious tradition Recognizes and affirms the diversity within the field, while advancing unique perspectives that might be the object of continued discussions among theologians Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology offers an important basis for scholars to position their own work within the broader field of comparative theology and is an essential resource for anyone interested in theology conducted in dialogue with other religious traditions. 2021 PROSE Finalist in the Theology & Religious Studies category.
Author : Pamela A. Patton
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271093013
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Iconography Beyond the Crossroads written by Pamela A. Patton and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assesses how current approaches to iconology and iconography break new ground in understanding the signification and reception of medieval images, both in their own time and in the modern world. Framed by critical essays that apply explicitly historiographical and sociopolitical perspectives to key moments in the evolution of the field, the volume’s case studies focus on how iconographic meaning is shaped by factors such as medieval modes of dialectical thought, the problem of representing time, the movement of the viewer in space, the fragmentation and injury of both image and subject, and the complex strategy of comparing distant cultural paradigms. The contributions are linked by a commitment to understanding how medieval images made meaning; to highlighting the heuristic value of new perspectives and methods in exploring the work of the image in both the Middle Ages and our own time; and to recognizing how subtle entanglements between scholarship and society can provoke mutual and unexpected transformations in both. Collectively, the essays demonstrate the expansiveness, flexibility, and dynamism of iconographic studies as a scholarly field that is still heartily engaged in the challenge of its own remaking. Along with the volume editors, the contributors include Madeline H. Caviness, Beatrice Kitzinger, Aden Kumler, Christopher R. Lakey, Glenn Peers, Jennifer Purtle, and Elizabeth Sears.
Author : Aaron V. Garrett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139436945
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Meaning in Spinoza's Method written by Aaron V. Garrett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of Spinoza's philosophy have often been daunted, and sometimes been enchanted, by the geometrical method which he employs in his philosophical masterpiece the Ethics. In Meaning in Spinoza's Method Aaron Garrett examines this method and suggests that its purpose, in Spinoza's view, was not just to present claims and propositions but also in some sense to change the readers and allow them to look at themselves and the world in a different way. His discussion draws not only on Spinoza's works but also on those of the philosophers who influenced Spinoza most strongly, including Hobbes, Descartes, Maimonides and Gersonides. This controversial book will be of interest to historians of philosophy and to anyone interested in the relation between form and content in philosophical works.
Author : Lawrence L. Lapin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Statistics written by Lawrence L. Lapin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1975 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frequency distributions and summary measures. The statistical sampling study. Probability. Probability distributions and expected value. The normal distribution. Statistical estimation. Hypothesis testing. Regression and correlation analysis. Multiple regression and correlation. Inferences using two samples. Chi-square applications. Analysis of variance and related topics. Nonparametric statistics.
Author : Maithree Wickramasinghe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135259585
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Feminist Research Methodology written by Maithree Wickramasinghe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines feminist research methodology, including its constituting methods, theory, ontology, epistemology and ethics and politics, and analyses research issues relating to women, gender and feminism in Sri Lanka.
Author : Steven J. Taylor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118767306
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods written by Steven J. Taylor and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative real-world guide to studying the "why" of human behavior Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods is a practical, comprehensive guide to the collection and presentation of qualitative data. Unique in the market, this book describes the entire research process — from design through writing — illustrated by examples of real, complete qualitative work that clearly demonstrates how methods are used in actual practice. This updated fourth edition includes all new case studies, with additional coverage of mixed methods, non-sociological settings, funding, and a sample interview guide. The studies profiled are accompanied by observation field notes, and the text includes additional readings for both students and instructors. More than just theory, this guide is designed to give you a real-world practitioner's view of how qualitative research is handled every step of the way. Many different disciplines rely on qualitative research as a method of inquiry, to gain an in-depth understanding of human behavior and the governing forces behind it. Qualitative research asks "why" and "how," and the data is frequently complex and difficult to measure. This book shows you how to effectively handle qualitative work, regardless of where it's being applied. Understand the strengths and limitations of qualitative data Learn how experts work around common methodological issues Compare actual field notes to the qualitative studies they generated Examine the full range of qualitative methods throughout the research process Whether you're studying sociology, psychology, marketing, or any number of other fields, especially in the social and behavioral sciences, human behavior is the central concern of your work. So what drives human behavior? That's what qualitative research helps to explain. Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods gives you the foundation you need to begin seeking answers.
Author : Christopher Beedham
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027215642
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Language and Meaning written by Christopher Beedham and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lcc number: 2005048394
