{"product_id":"a-poetic-for-sociology-toward-a-logic-of-discovery-for-the-human-sciences-9780226076195","title":"A Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human Sciences","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Richard Harvey Brown\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Methodology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor too long, argues Richard Harvey Brown, social scientists have felt forced to choose between imitating science's empirical methodology and impersonating a romantic notion of art, the methods of which are seen as primarily a matter of intuition, interpretation, and opinion. Developing the idea of a \"cognitive aesthetic,\" Brown shows how both science and art--as well as the human studies that stand between them--depend on metaphoric thinking as their \"logic of discovery\" and may be assessed in terms of such aesthetic criteria of adequacy as economy, elegance, originality, scope, congruence, and form. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy recognizing this \"aesthetic\" common ground between science and art, Brown demonstrates that a fusion can be achieved within the human sciences of these two principal ideals of knowledge--the scientific or positivist one and the artistic or intuitive one. A path, then, is opened for creating a knowledge of ourselves and society which is at once objective \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e subjective, at once valid scientifically and significantly humane. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615204819095,"sku":"9780226076195","price":4318.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226076195.webp?v=1775098770","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-poetic-for-sociology-toward-a-logic-of-discovery-for-the-human-sciences-9780226076195","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}