Objectivity in Social Science - 9781442639638

Objectivity in Social ScienceAuthor(s): Frank Cunningham\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442639638, 978-1442639638\nSynopsis\nThe debates over objectivity in the social sciences have a long history; there have been contributions by philosophers and social theorists from a variety of viewpoints, including empiricism, phenomenology, pragmatism, and Marxism. Objectivity in Social Science combats the widespread opinion that objective inquiry is impossible in the social sciences by drawing together and exhibiting the weaknesses of arguments, taken from positions in the philosophies of science, social science, language, and perception, in favour of anti-objectivism, arguments which have recurred in one form or another throughout the course of these debates.\n\n As the author puts it, 'What I have attempted to offer is at the least a convenient map for finding one's way about in the tangle of issues surro.