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Arguing that the beginnings of the social sciences extend much further back than is generally realized, this text traces the methodological foundations, research techniques, and basic concepts of the social sciences from their earliest origins to the beginning of this century. This investigation enables her to provide empirical refutation of recent radical, feminist, and environmentalist critiques that assert that the social sciences inevitably support the power relations of the status quo, are antithetical to the interests of women, and are inherently linked to the domination and destruction of nature. Against these contentions she shows, for example, that women social thinkers have been active in every age since the 16th century. McDonald presents these women's work as evidence of the way in which the empirical social sciences have been employed by social reformers, including advocates for the equality of women, to challenge the state and those in authority. She argues as well that Weber's "interpretative sociology" has been misinterpreted, citing his extensive, but usually ignored, quantitative work. Despite the supposed opposition of interpretative and mainstream sociology, McD

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Author

Lynn McDonald

Publisher

Carleton University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780773511248

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Sociology