| Description |
v11, 211 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Politics, history, and social change |
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Politics, history, and social change.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index. |
| Contents |
For science, against scientism : the dilemmas of contemporary knowledge production -- Social sciences in the twenty-first century -- The end of certainties in the social sciences -- Braudel and interscience : a preacher to empty pews? -- Time and duration : the unexcluded middle, or reflections on Braudel and Prigogine -- The itinerary of world-systems analysis, or how to resist becoming a theory -- History in search of science -- Writing history -- Global culture(s) : salvation, menace, or myth? -- From sociology to historical social science : prospects and obstacles -- Anthropology, sociology, and other dubious disciplines. |
| Summary |
"The Uncertainties of Knowledge extends Immanuel Wallerstein's decade-long work of elucidating the crisis of knowledge in current intellectual thought. He argues that the disciplinary divisions of academia have trapped us in a paradigm that assumes knowledge is a certainty and that it can help us explain the social world. This is wrong, he suggests. Instead, Wallerstein offers a new conception of the social sciences, one whose methodology allows for uncertainties."--Back cover. |
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Scientism.
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Education, Higher -- Social aspects.
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Social change.
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Kennis.
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Onzekerheid.
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Sociale verandering.
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Sociale wetenschappen.
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Education, Higher -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00903107
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Scientism. (OCoLC)fst01108891
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Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01122940
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Sociale wetenschappen.
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Kennis.
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Onzekerheid.
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Sociale verandering.
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Sozialwissenschaften.
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Sozialer Wandel. (DE-588)4077587-2
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Sozialphilosophie. (DE-588)4055876-9
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Sozialwissenschaften. (DE-588)4055916-6
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Szientismus. (DE-588)4128283-8
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Wissenschaftstheorie. (DE-588)4117665-0
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| ISBN |
1592132421 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781592132423 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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159213243X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781592132430 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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