Integrating the Human Sciences
Integrating the Human Sciences What if we recognized that the human sciences collectively investigate a few dozen key phenomena that interact with each other? If so, what would that look like?This…
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Integrating the Human Sciences
What if we recognized that the human sciences collectively investigate a few dozen key phenomena that interact with each other? If so, what would that look like?This book argues that we are unlikely to develop one unified "theory of everything." Our collective understanding must then be a "map" of the myriad relationships within this large - but finite and manageable - system, coupled with detailed understandings of each causal link and of important subsystems. Can we imagine a human science that would seek to stitch its understandings of this system of phenomena into a coherent whole?
The book outlines such a map and shows that the pursuit of coherence - and a more successful human science enterprise - requires integration, recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of different methods and theory types, and the pursuit of terminological and presentational clarity. It
Integrating the Human Sciences
Bakhtin and the Human Sciences