Introduction | |
What's Wrong With the Social Sciences? | p. 1 |
The dialectics of disenchantment | p. 2 |
The trouble with feminist theory | p. 13 |
Titles and tribulations | p. 17 |
Solicitous gatekeepers, #1 | p. 25 |
Itching and scratching: a Lazarsfeldian digression through an SPSS hologram | p. 27 |
Transcending the transcendentalists | p. 30 |
What do you presuppose, and when did you presuppose it? The Sisyphus of the social sciences | p. 33 |
The meaning of politics and the politics of meaning | p. 38 |
Michel Foucault, Machines Who Think, and the Human Sciences | p. 57 |
"Man the machine - man the impersonal engine" | p. 57 |
Good, bad, or ugly? | p. 67 |
Mitigating circumstances | p. 70 |
In conclusion: Oodles of Boodles | p. 74 |
Why Foucault needed Lindroth, and why Lindroth needed Foucault | p. 75 |
In Praise of the Null Hypothesis: The Myth of "The Value-Free Myth" | p. 83 |
The nature and extent of bias in scientific research | p. 83 |
Quashing the indictment: Can a Comtean rule a country? | p. 85 |
Quashing the indictment: The case against functional analysis | p. 89 |
Overturned on appeal: Research on political power | p. 101 |
A new hypothesis | p. 102 |
Conclusion: Science as bias control | p. 102 |
Social Science Syntactics and Empirics: Alleged Problems | p. 111 |
Three papers in search of an argument | p. 111 |
Solicitous gatekeepers, #2 | p. 131 |
...and Happy Prospects | p. 141 |
Introduction | p. 141 |
Sex discrimination in faculty salaries: Toward projections of the middle range | p. 145 |
Allocating faculty salaries with Minitab BASIC, and allowing feedback from future states | p. 154 |
From a FIRM grip on reality to the AIDS epidemic: The future of social simulations | p. 156 |
Conclusions | p. 159 |
Cultural Materialism in the Systemic Mode | p. 171 |
An excursion into "cultural" functionalism | p. 171 |
The POET paradigm: A transcendence of hierarchy | p. 178 |
Rediprocal interaction: Organization and technology | p. 179 |
Social Science Semantics: A Sad Story | p. 195 |
Introduction | p. 195 |
Contemporary thesauri with taxonomic overtones | p. 200 |
The logic of taxonomics | p. 205 |
Sampling, search, and test strategies for Sociological Abstracts: Hierarchies without perks | p. 209 |
First conclusion | p. 214 |
Codicil 1991 | p. 215 |
Frequencies and amplitudes: Toward a taxonomy of time series | p. 216 |
Online searches as a data source: Notes on the future of taxonomy | p. 219 |
Final conclusion | p. 223 |
Index | |
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