Author

Publication

2004 - Yale University Press

Language

English

Word Count

40,000 words, Guess

Page Count

160 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2003061157
  • Goodreads51508
  • LibraryThing163611

Classifications

  • LCCHM621.N67 2003

Description

"In this book, distinguished political scientist Anne Norton proposes 95 theses that launch a brilliant, witty polemic against the orthodoxy in her own field." "Rejecting the antiquated and stultifying models in textbooks on method, in courses on methodology, championed by the self-appointed gatekeepers of a narrow and parochial political science, Norton opens the gates to more new practices, new principles, new questions, more methods, and more demanding ethical and scientific criteria. Practice, she argues, has outstripped old models and conventional standards. Drawing on the most daring and rigorous work in structuralism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, cultural studies, institutional analysis, and the philosophy of science, she offers practical advice for students of politics, cultures, and method."--Jacket.

First Sentence

The old thesis "culture is a network of meaning" gave direction and safe passage to generations of students of culture working in the often hostile environs of the social sciences.

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