Readings in methodology : African perspectives / edited by Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo, Carlos Cardoso.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Dakar, Senegal : Codesria, [2011]
Description
xxxiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Codesria book series. [More in this series]
    Notes
    "This volume is a collection of papers presentated during methodological workshops organized by Codesria"-- P. [4] of cover.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Action note
    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • Pragmatism as a vision of the world and as a method : a philosophical examination of the challenges presented to contemporary social research by subjective idealism / Nkolo Foé
    • The alchemist and the apprentice myth-hunter : comments on social engineering in African social sciences / Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo & Pierre Bouda
    • An introduction to the epistemology of the social sciences / Sémou Pathé Gueye
    • Reasons and causes : Wittgenstein versus the myth of causal explanation in the social sciences / Pierre Bouda
    • Construction of the subject as a practice of clarification of social relationships / Jean Ferdinand Mbah
    • Moroccan sociology : epistemological preliminaries / Abderrahman El-Maliki
    • Autochthones making their realities strange in order to better understand them / Roseline M. Achieng'
    • Life history and the writing of ethnography : the case of Morocco / Mokhtar El Harras
    • Audiovisual instruments in ethnographic research / Clara Carvalho
    • Establishing an observation, producing a discourse, illustrating results : possibilities for a photographic tool / Anne Attané
    • Comparison : a foundational approach in the social sciences / Cécile Vigour
    • Writing in the social sciences : from field notes to scientific reports / Alexandra Bidet and Erwan Le Méner.
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    ISBN
    • 9782869784833
    • 286978483X
    LCCN
    ^^2011349943
    OCLC
    770876471
    RCP
    H - S
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