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Analysing Practical and Professional Texts

A Naturalistic Approach

By: Mr Rod Watson

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Analysing Practical and Professional Texts

A Naturalistic Approach

By: Mr Rod Watson

Analysing Practical and Professional Texts focuses on texts as constituents of human usage, showing how written documents and other 'texts' are integral to social organization. It reveals social organization itself to be not only textually-mediated in nature, but also textually-constituted, showing how texts – professional, technical or otherwise – as well as various social-scientific methodologies employ the resources of ordinary language. Theoretically sophisticated and illustrated with empirical examples, this book will be of interest not only to those with interests in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, but also to social scientists and anthropologists concerned with text analysis, textual sense and the 'linguistic turn' in the methods of their own disciplines.

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286

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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140949196X

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9781409491965

Wittgenstein among the Sciences

Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method'

By: Dr Rupert Read,Mr Simon Summers

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Wittgenstein among the Sciences

Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method'

By: Dr Rupert Read,Mr Simon Summers

Engaging with the question of the extent to which the so-called human, economic or social sciences are actually sciences, this book moves away from the search for a criterion or definition that will allow us to sharply distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific. Instead, the book favours the pursuit of clarity with regard to the various enterprises undertaken by human beings, with a view to dissolving the felt need for such a demarcation. In other words, Read pursues a 'therapeutic' approach to the issue of the status and nature of these subjects. Discussing the work of Kuhn, Winch and Wittgenstein in relation to fundamental question of methodology, 'Wittgenstein among the Sciences' undertakes an examination of the nature of (natural) science itself, in the light of which a series of successive cases of putatively scientific disciplines are analysed. A novel and significant contribution to social science methodology and the philosophy of science and 'the human sciences', this book will be of interest to social scientists and philosophers, as well as to psychiatrists, economists and cognitive scientists.

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256

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409495280

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9781409495284

Norbert Elias's Lost Research

Revisiting the Young Worker Project

By: Mr John Goodwin,Dr Henrietta O'Connor

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Norbert Elias's Lost Research

Revisiting the Young Worker Project

By: Mr John Goodwin,Dr Henrietta O'Connor

Based on the re-discovery of a lost sociological project led by Norbert Elias at the University of Leicester, this book re-visits the project: The Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles. Norbert Elias's Lost Research makes use of the interview booklets documenting the lives of nearly 900 Leicester school leavers at the time, to give a unique account of Elias's only foray into large-scale, publicly funded research.

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199

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409404668

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9781409404668

Phillips Curves, Phillips Lines and the Unemplyment Costs of Overheating

By: Mr.Peter B. Clark,Mr.Douglas Laxton

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Phillips Curves, Phillips Lines and the Unemplyment Costs of Overheating

By: Mr.Peter B. Clark,Mr.Douglas Laxton

Most empirical work on the U.S. Phillips curve has had a strong tendency to impose global linearity on the data. The basic objective of this paper is to reconsider the issue of nonlinearity and to underscore its importance for policymaking. After briefly reviewing the history of the Phillips curve and the basis for convexity, we derive it explicitly using standard models of wage and price determination. We provide some empirical estimates of Phillips curves and Phillips lines for the United States and use some illustrative simulations to contrast the policy implications of the two models.

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International Monetary Fund

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145184350X

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9781451843507

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Analysing Practical and Professional Texts

Analysing Practical and Professional Texts

Wittgenstein among the Sciences

Wittgenstein among the Sciences

Norbert Elias's Lost Research

Norbert Elias's Lost Research

Phillips Curves, Phillips Lines and the Unemplyment Costs of Overheating

Phillips Curves, Phillips Lines and the Unemplyment Costs of Overheating

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