Readings in Methodology: African Perspectives

Content

Content and Introduction

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(17-35)

PART ONE: SOCIAL REASONS FOR SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE

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

(3-16)

The Alchemist and the Apprentice Myth-Hunter, Comments on Social Engineering in African Social Sciences, Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo & Pierre Bouda

(17-35)

PART TWO: LOGICS OF DISCOVERY

An Introduction to the Epistemology of the Social Sciences, Sémou Pathé Guèye

(39-76)

Reasons and Causes: Wittgenstein versus the Myth of Causal Explanation in the Social Sciences, Pierre Bouda

(77-86)

Scientific Logics and Methodologies, Gbocho Akissi

(87-100)

Construction of the Subject as a Practice of Clarification of Social Relationships, Jean Ferdinand Mbah

(101-124)

PART THREE: CONTEXTUAL DETERMINATIONS

Moroccan Sociology: Epistemological Preliminaries, Abderrahman El-Maliki

(125-138)

Autochthones Making their Realities Strange in Order to Better Understand Them, Roseline M. Achieng’

(139-146)

PART FOUR: TOOLS FOR INVESTIGATION

Life History and the Writing of Ethnography: The Case of Morocco, Mokhtar El Harras

(149-162)

Audiovisual Instruments in Ethnographic Research, Clara Carvalho

(163-172)

Establishing an Observation, Producing a Discourse, Illustrating Results Possibilities for the Photographic Tool, Anne Attané

(173-214)

Comparison: A Foundational Approach in the Social Sciences, Cécile Vigour

(215-246)

PART FIVE: WRITING AND RESEARCH

Writing in the Social Sciences: From Field Notes to Scientific Reports, Alexandra Bidet and Erwan Le Méner

(249-272)

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