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Paradigms, Epistemologies & Philosophy of Science


 

An introduction to issues of philosophy of science in research methods. What van Maanen said to Pfeffer.

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
  - G. K. Chesterton

 

Topics

  • What is research?

Readings

  • Pfeffer, J. 1993. Barriers to the advance of organizational science: Paradigm development as a dependent variable; The Academy of Management Review,  Vol. 18, Iss. 4; pg. 599, 22 pgs [^pdf]
  • Van Maanen, J. 1995."Style as theory." Organization Science,   Vol. 6, Iss. 1; pg. 133-143 [^pdf]
 

Handouts

Online

 

Additional


 

The Pfeffer-Van Maanen debate in Management

  • Pfeffer, J. 1993. Barriers to the advance of organizational science: Paradigm development as a dependent variable; The Academy of Management Review,  Vol. 18, Iss. 4; pg. 599, 22 pgs [^pdf]
  • Van Maanen, J. 1995."Style as theory." Organization Science,   Vol. 6, Iss. 1; pg. 133-143 [^pdf]

King, Keohane, and Verba, Designing Social Inquiry, Chapter 1

Lieberson, Stanley. 1992. “Einstein, Renoir, and Greeley: Evidence in Sociology.”

American Sociological Review 57: 1 – 18.

Singleton, Royce A. and Bruce Straits. 2005. Approaches to Social Research. New

York: Oxford University Press. “Reliability and Validity” Pp. 90-107.

Singleton, Royce A. and Bruce Straits. 2005. Approaches to Social Research. New

York: Oxford University Press. “Historical Analysis” and “Content Analysis” Pp. 364-

376.

Gilens, Martin. 1999. Why American Hate Welfare: Race, Media and the Politics of

Antipoverty Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapter 5.

Additional:

Collins, Randall. 1989. “Sociology: Proscience or Antiscience?” American

Sociological Review 54(1): 124-139.

Rubin, Z. 1970. “Measurement of Romantic Love.” Journal of Personality and Social

Psychology 16:265-73.

  • Lett, J. 1997. Science, reason, and anthropology: The principles of rational inquiry. New York: Rowman & Littlefield
  • Greenfield, P. M. 2000. What psychology can do for anthropology, or why anthropology took postmodernism on the chin. American Anthropologist 102:564-576
  • Aunger, R. 2004. Chapter 1 (p. 1-20) "A crisis in confidence," Reflexive ethnographic science. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press
  • O'Meara, J. T. 1989. Anthropology as empirical science. American Anthropologist 91:354-369

MCKELVEY B. 1994. Evolution and Organization Science. In J. A. C. Baum and V. Jitendra, editors, Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

 

 

 

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