Ways of knowing : competing methodologies in social and political research /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Moses, Jonathon Wayne, 1962-
Other Authors:	Knutsen, Torbjørn L.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition:	2nd ed.
Subjects:	Social sciences > Methodology. Social sciences > Comparative method. Social sciences > Research.

Table of Contents:

List of figures
List of tables
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
Philosophy of naturalist science
The experimental method
The statistical method
The comparative method
History, interviews and case studies
Sowing doubts about the naturalist methodology
A constructivist philosophy of science
From story telling to telling histories
Comparing contexts
Contextualizing statistics
Interpretive experiments
Conclusion
References
Index.