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Methodology for the Human Sciences addresses the growing need for a comprehensive textbook that surveys the emerging body of literature on human science research and clearly describes procedures and methods for carrying out new research strategies. It provides an overview of developing methods, describes their commonalities and variations, and contains practical information on how to implement strategies in the field. In it, Donald Polkinghorne calls for a renewal of debate over which methods are appropriate for the study of human beings, proposing that the results of the extensive changes in the philosophy of science since 1960 call for a reexamination of the original issues of this debate.The book traces the history of the deliberations from Mill and Dilthey to Hempel and logical positivism, examines recently developed systems of inquiry and their importance for the human sciences, and relates these systems to the practical problems of doing research on topics related to human experience. It discusses historical realism, systems and structures, phenomenology and hermeneutics, action theory, and the implications recent systems have for a revised human science methodology.
Donald E. Polkinghorne is Emeritus Professor and Chair of Counseling Psychology at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences and Practice and the Human Sciences: The Case for a Judgment-Based Practice of Care, both also published by SUNY Press.
List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Original Debate PositivismThe Anti-Positivist ResponseThe Recurring DebateSummary2. The Received View of Science The First Phase: The Vienna CircleThe Second Phase: Theoretical NetworksThe Human Sciences and the Deductive System of Inquiry3. Pragmatic Science The Third Phase: Criticism of the Received ViewThe Fourth Phase: Sciences as Expressions of Various World OutlooksThe Fifth Phase: Historical Realism4. Systems and Structures SystemsStructuralism and Human SystemsSystems Inquiry and Methodology5. Human Action The Nature of Human ActionExplanations and Accounts of Human Action: Causal ExplanationsExplanations and Accounts of Human Action: Acausal ExplanationsExplanations and Accounts of Human Action: Linguistic Accounts Practical Reasoning6. Existential-Phenomenological and Hermeneutic Systems The Existential-Phenomenological System of InquiryHermeneutics (Interpretation)Interpretation and the Human Sciences7. Human Science Research The Nature of KnowledgeUse of Linguistic DataConcluding RemarksAppendix: The Term "Human Science"NotesBibliographyIndex
