Science of Science and Reflexivity

基本信息

Format:Hardback 168 pages

Publisher:Polity Press

Imprint:Polity Press

ISBN:9780745630595

Published: 16 Sep 2004

Classifications:Sociology & anthropology

Readership:Professional & Vocational

Weight:344g

Dimensions:239 x 158 x 15(mm)

Pub. Country:United Kingdom

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書籍簡介

作為世界上重要的社會思想家之一，布迪耶亞的作品在整個社會科學和人文學科中越來越有影響力。在這本新書中，他開始對科學及其合法性進行社會學分析。布迪厄認為，社會科學的出現促使人們對科學活動的客觀性和有效性提出質疑，並將其與歷史條件聯繫起來。

布迪厄試圖將科學領域的準確視角與現實主義知識理論結合起來，挑戰的正是這種相對主義和有時是虛無主義的科學解釋。書還提供了一個詳細的布迪耶亞的概念的科學領域，並使用它來解決自然和社會科學的一系列問題和辯論。這是對布迪耶亞的科學觀點的一個清晰易懂的介紹，將吸引社會學、哲學和社會科學的學生。

One of the worlda s leading social thinkers, Bourdieua s work has become increasingly influential throughout the social sciences and humanities. In this new book he embarks on a sociological analysis of science and its legitimacy. Bourdieu argues that that emergence of the social sciences has had the effect of calling in to question the objectivity and validity of scientific activity, by relating it to its historic conditions.

It is this relativistic and at times nihilistic interpretation of science that Bourdieu sets out to challenge, in an attempt to combine an accurate vision of the scientific arena with a realist theory of knowledge. The book also offers an elaboration of Bourdieua s notion of the scientific field and uses it to address a range of issues and debates in the natural and social sciences. This is a clear and accessible introduction to Bourdieua s views on science that will appeal to students of sociology, philosophy and the social sciences.

目錄

Foreword.

Introduction.

I. The state of the question.

1. An enchanted vision.

2. Normal science and scientific revolutions.

3. The‘strong programme’.

4. A well-kept open secret.

II. A world apart.

1. The ‘craft’ of the scientist.

2. Autonomy and the conditions of entry.

3. Scientific capital, its forms and distribution.

4. A regulated struggle.

5. History and truth.

III. Why the social sciences must take themselves as their object.

1. Objectivating the subject of objectivation.

2. Sketch for a self-analysis.

Conclusion.

Bibliography

媒體推薦

布爾迪厄的觀點在他的演講和訪談中更容易理解，這本書，就像作者在法蘭西學院的最後一堂課一樣，相對容易理解。作者在準備發表演講時插入的旁白使它更加生動——它們就像高夫曼的腳註一樣，把人們的注意力吸引到不太可能的、因而令人興奮的比較上。——《皇家人類學研究所學報》(Journal of The Royal Anthropological Institute）

這本書很好地體現了他在生命的最後十年發展和倡導的社會學、倫理和政治立場中顯見的優勢和一些更隱蔽的弱點。這本書是一個重要知識分子成熟思想的寶貴記錄。這是一本令人振奮，有時甚至是有趣的讀物。——《歐洲社會理論雜誌》

'Bourdieu's ideas are more accessible in his lectures and interviews, and this book, consisting as it does of the final lecture course given by the author at the College de France, is relatively easy going. It is made livelier still by the asides inserted by the author whilst preparing the lectures for publication - they serve, rather like Goffman's footnotes, to draw one's attention to unlikely and therefore stimulating comparisons.'——The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

'It is a book that embodies well both the very apparant strengths and some of the more hidden weaknesses of the sociological, ethical and political positions he developed and advocated in the last decade of his life. (T)he book is a valuable record of mature ideas of a major intellectual. It is an invigorating and sometimes even amusing read.'——European Journal of Social Theory

作者簡介

皮埃爾·布迪厄(1930-2002)，法國學院社會學教授。他是二十多部作品的作者或合著者，包括《區別》、《人屬學術》、《電視上的帕斯卡利安沉思》、《國家貴族》、《抵抗行為》，以及最後一本由芝加哥大學出版社出版的《反射社會學的邀請》。

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) was professor of sociology at the Collège de France. He was the author or coauthor of more than twenty works, including Distinction, Homo Academicus, Pascalian Meditations, On Television, State Nobility, Acts of Resistance, and An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, the last published by the University of Chicago Press.