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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      28 June 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511489372
      9780521642200
      9780521659888
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511489372
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 330 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 330 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Research Methods in Sociology and Criminology, Research Methods In Sociology and Criminology, Sociology
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    Cultures of Inquiry provides an overview of research methodologies in social science, historical and cultural studies. Facing Kant's proposition that pure reason cannot contain social inquiry, John R. Hall uses a method of hermeneutic deconstruction to produce a 'critique of impure reason', thereby charting a 'third path' to knowledge. Inquiries conventionally allocated to science or interpretation, modern or postmodern, he argues, depend upon interconnected methodologies that transcend present-day disciplinary and interdisciplinary boundaries. He identifies four formative discourses and eight methodological practices of inquiry, and explores new possibilities for translation between different types of knowledge. Cultures of Inquiry neither exoticizes academic subcultures nor essentializes Culture as the spirit of academe. Instead, it addresses workaday issues of research via a sociology of knowledge that speaks to controversies concerning how inquiry is and ought to be practiced under conditions of epistemological disjuncture.

    Reviews

    "...an illuminating and useful review." American Journal of Sociology

    "...valuable exploration of modes of sociohistorical research or inquiry... Halls' presentation is rigorous and thorough." Stephen M. Feldman, Contemporary Sociology

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