Cultures of Inquiry: From Epistemology to Discourse in Sociohistorical Research

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Tables and figures......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Prologue......Page 15
1 Introduction: the Third Path......Page 20
From the foundations of knowledge to the cultures of inquiry......Page 23
The repression of the old Methodenstreit......Page 24
From the end of purifying binaries to the Third Path......Page 28
Inquiry and its frames of reference......Page 30
The hermeneutic deconstruction of inquiry......Page 33
Deconstruction, totalization, and supplement......Page 34
Hermeneutics after poststructuralism......Page 36
The forms of discourse and practices of inquiry......Page 37
Part I Formative discourses......Page 45
2 Value discourse and the object of inquiry......Page 47
Meaning in history......Page 49
Ultimate meaning as moral barometer......Page 51
Max Weber and the valuation of truth......Page 53
The relativism of multiple value objectivities......Page 56
Values, objectivity, and science......Page 59
The positivist dilemma......Page 60
Realism......Page 61
Pragmatic realism as conceptual constructionism......Page 63
Conventionalism......Page 64
Science and the problem of relative values......Page 67
From Marx to negative dialectics......Page 69
Habermas and the objective value of communication......Page 70
Habermas and his critics......Page 72
Coda 2 How values consolidate projects of explanation......Page 77
3 Narrative cultures and inquiry......Page 86
Genre as metanarrative......Page 88
Narratives as cultural communications......Page 92
The social relationship between narrator and audience......Page 96
Plot in/of the lifeworld and the quest for intrinsic narrative......Page 100
Extrinsic objects of inquiry and the passages from narrative......Page 108
Coda 3 The explanatory and interpretive potential of narrative accounts......Page 112
4 The conceptual possibilities of social theoretical discourse......Page 118
Case-pattern and analytic-element models......Page 121
Meaning, historicity, and general theory......Page 125
Analytical realism and the terrain of theoretical discourse......Page 130
The functional or dialectical system......Page 131
The system of exchange......Page 133
Connecting analytic elements and case patterns......Page 134
The ellipsis: Simmel and social forms......Page 135
Approaches to concept formation and the possibilities of social theory......Page 141
The four approaches and developments of theory......Page 143
The logical and dialogical connections of theoretical approaches......Page 147
Coda 4 The uses of theory in explanatory and interpretive accounts......Page 151
Voluntary action and analytic-variable accounts......Page 152
Causal-deterministic, meaning, and exchange relations......Page 153
Functional and dialectical relationships......Page 155
Time, historicity, and theoretical accounts......Page 156
Historicity and theory......Page 157
Theory, historicity, and narrative......Page 161
5 The core of explanation and interpretation as formative discourse......Page 164
Traditions of inquiry......Page 166
Explanatory-factor frameworks......Page 170
Probabilities......Page 173
Conjuncture......Page 175
Historical time......Page 177
Effort......Page 178
Part II Practices of inquiry......Page 181
6 Discursive hybrids of practice: an introductory schema......Page 183
The discursive articulations of practice......Page 184
The pandisciplinarity of inquiry......Page 187
7 Generalizing practices of inquiry......Page 194
Totalizing theory as universal history......Page 196
The application of social theory to cases......Page 202
Analytic generalization......Page 207
Contrast-oriented comparison......Page 212
8 Particularizing practices of inquiry......Page 218
Situational history......Page 219
Specific history......Page 224
Configurational history......Page 230
Historicism......Page 234
9 The prospects for inquiry......Page 243
The Third Path......Page 246
Regimens of discourse and the articulations of practice......Page 248
Relations among practices......Page 249
Assemblages of inquiry......Page 250
Choices and developments of practice......Page 253
Commitments of value......Page 255
The practice of translation......Page 259
Reflexive practice......Page 266
Between reason and the differend......Page 269
1 INTRODUCTION: THE THIRD PATH......Page 276
2 VALUE DISCOURSE AND THE OBJECT OF INQUIRY......Page 279
CODA 2 HOW VALUES CONSOLIDATE PROJECTS OF EXPLANATION......Page 282
3 NARRATIVE CULTURES AND INQUIRY......Page 283
4 THE CONCEPTUAL POSSIBILITIES OF SOCIAL THEORETICAL DISCOURSE......Page 286
CODA 4 THE USES OF THEORY IN EXPLANATORY AND INTERPRETIVE ACCOUNTS......Page 289
5 THE CORE OF EXPLANATION AND INTERPRETATION AS FORMATIVE DISCOURSE......Page 291
6 DISCURSIVE HYBRIDS OF PRACTICE: AN INTRODUCTORY SCHEMA......Page 292
7 GENERALIZING PRACTICES OF INQUIRY......Page 293
8 PARTICULARIZING PRACTICES OF INQUIRY......Page 295
9 THE PROSPECTS FOR INQUIRY......Page 297
Bibliography......Page 299
Index......Page 322