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.
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G. K. Chesterton |
Topics
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]
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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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