Models and Interpretations: Selected Essays - Couverture souple

Barnes, J. A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521024935 ISBN 13 : 9780521024938

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book of essays by John Barnes will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists and philosophers of social science.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

John Barnes's collection of essays covers a variety of topics in sociology and anthropology, including lineage systems, social networks, colonialism, underlying assumptions of social science, and the significance of time in social analysis. Together they identify the author's particular view of social science: he is primarily interested in 'what really happens'. Rather than revamp articles written with a distinctive set of assumptions to bring them into line with current intellectual fashion, Professor Barnes has chosen to let them stand as they are, products of identifiable theoretical stance and modes of exposition. But introductory notes to each chapter set out the context in which the piece was originally written and draw attention to later publications and events that bear on it. An introduction discusses in detail the author's view of social science as the construction of models rather than a search for social laws, while the final chapter presents a model of the modelling process itself.

Revue de presse

"Barnes's collection is rich and wise and can give proportion to current debate." Aidan W. Southall, Ethnohistory

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521024935
• ISBN 13: 9780521024938
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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