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MCGOVERN, BRIAN JOHN.

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THE IDEA OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (ANTHROPOLOGY).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	THE IDEA OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (ANTHROPOLOGY)./
Author:	MCGOVERN, BRIAN JOHN.
Description:	412 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-09, Section: A, page: 3385.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International53-09A.
Subject:	Sociology, Theory and Methods. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=D-97783

THE IDEA OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (ANTHROPOLOGY).
MCGOVERN, BRIAN JOHN.

THE IDEA OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (ANTHROPOLOGY). - 412 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-09, Section: A, page: 3385.

Thesis (D.Phil.)--University of Oxford (United Kingdom), 1989.

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Sociology, Theory and Methods.

THE IDEA OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (ANTHROPOLOGY).
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520 $a The idea of an applied social science is incoherent. I begin chapter one by demonstrating how loosely especially the phrase 'applied anthropology' is used. However, usage appears to gather what coherence it has from an association with two concepts, 'detachment' and 'participation'. From the discussion of these concepts in their relation to social science which follows, it emerges that there seem to be good logical grounds for suspicion of both 'detached' and 'committed' versions of social science. Although advertised as very different, they show an essential identity in that each bids for 'purity', which I recognize to be a religious concept. The most radical of the attempts to dispense with 'purity' in the name of society, 'critical theory', I discuss at length in chapter two, finding its 'immanent critique' of social science surprisingly valid. The logical consequence of this is more remarkable still. As I argue in the remainder of chapter two, the success of the 'immanent critique' of social science is its abolition. The 'immanent critique' reinforces the suspicion that social science is ideology in the true sense, that there can be no applied social science because social science is always 'applied', and that it is its supposed 'purity' that is applied. Another alternative to 'scientism' is looked at in the third chapter, 'understanding'. In the case of arguably the greatest exponent of the method of Verstehen, Max Weber, it can be seen that it is impossible to accommodate understanding in the true sense with 'science'. In the case of another influential figure in this tradition, R. G. Collingwood, 'understanding' is seen to degenerate into relativism, which is, indeed, as the discussion of Weber showed, rationalism's true face. In chapter four I examine the case of applied anthropology as it was between 1922 and 1945 or thereabouts, providing evidence for my contention that the idea of an applied social science is incoherent because social science is always applied. I return to the other main contention of this thesis in the final chapter, suggesting that if social science may be seen to bear a religious character, that is because such was imprinted upon it at its founding.
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