Experience New Foundations for the Human Sciences Lash Paperback Polity Press

Experience\nby Scott Lash\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Scott Lash\nTitle: Experience\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Sociology\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9780745695150\nISBN-10: 0745695159\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis book is a radical plea for the centrality of experience in the social and human sciences. Lash argues that a large part of the output of the social sciences today is still shaped by assumptions stemming from positivism, in contrast to the tradition of interpretative social enquiry pioneered by Max Weber. These assumptions are particularly central to economics, with its emphasis on homo economicus, the utility-maximizing actor, but they have infiltrated the other social sciences too. Lash argues for a so.