A Brief History of Knowledge for Social Science Researchers A Brief History of Knowledge for Social Science Researchers

A Brief History of Knowledge for Social Science Researchers

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A Brief History of Knowledge for Social Science Researchers outlines a history of knowledge from Ancient Greece to present day, in Europe and the Western world. This outline provides the basis for understanding where various research methods originate, and their epistemological, historical, political and social roots.


This book provides social science researchers with an understanding of how research methods developed, and how their truth criteria, and what is accepted as knowledge, spring from human history. Research is often reduced to data collection, results and publication in the stressful, results-oriented academic environment. But research is a human enterprise, a product of both individual creativity and historical, political and social conditions. This book will focus on how shared research criteria (as we know them today) were developed through the work and thought of philosophers, social activists and researchers.


This book will be useful for graduate and post-graduate students, particularly those studying Research Methods, and Philosophy of Science courses; and for experienced social science researchers who wish to understand how research methods have developed in human history.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2020
5 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
82
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor and Francis
SIZE
970.9
KB

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