• ISBN13: 9780202361840
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Writing/Research Methods
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: May 1, 2008
• Pages: 364
• Original Price: USD 68.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 772 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Research

Social scientists are often vexed because their work does not satisfy the criteria of "scientific" methodology developed by philosophers of science and logicians who use the natural sciences as their model. This study defines science in terms of norms implicit in what social scientists actually do in their everyday work.

Diesing, Paul: -

Paul Diesing is professor emeritus of political science at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He did his graduate studies in philosophy from the University of Chicago and has taught at that university, the University of Illinois, and the University of Colorado. Diesing has also been a faculty associate at the Buffalo Center for International Conflict Studies, where he participated in the Center's program of researching in bargaining theory and international crises. He is the author of Reason in Society: Five Types of Decisions and Their Social Conditions and Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences.