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The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences

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 | #2400661 in Books |  2007-12-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.54 x6.14l,.75 | File type: PDF | 232 pages

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||9 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| A breath of fresh air|By Prof Manfred Steger|As a political theorist and global studies scholar, I deeply sympathize with Shapiro's call for a return to problem-driven social inquiry that can illuminate the central questions of our global era. The book is written in an accessible, lucid style and offers strong arguments for a "middle way" between the Scylla of jargonistic meta| |"In these probing essays . . . Ian Shapiro offers a disturbing portrait of contemporary social science. . . . [He] calls for academics to reconnect the academic enterprise to the real world by returning to problem-driven social inquiry--an urging that scholars

In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, scholars have fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from--and perpetuates--a flight from reality.

In the method-driven academic culture we inhabit, argues Sh...

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