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Evidence and explanation in history and sociology: critical reflections on Goldthorpe's critique of historical sociology
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In 1991, Goldthorpe ouvrait la voie a vaste debat sur les rapports entre ces deux disciplines as mentioned in this paper, which constitue un examen critique des positions de Goldhorpe sur certaines questions that pose une sociologie historique.Abstract:
En 1991, en publiant « The uses of history in sociology » , John Goldthorpe ouvrait la voie a un vaste debat sur les rapports entre ces deux disciplines. Cet article constitue un examen critique des positions de Goldthorpe sur certaines questions que pose une sociologie historique. L'A. degage trois points importants : l' « evidence » historique est caracterisee par une authenticite sociale et par une « multivalence » informationnelle ; la nature temporelle des phenomenes sociaux autorise un rapprochement entre les modes d'analyses de l'histoire et ceux de la sociologie, a savoir l'adoption d'une logique contextuelle d'explication ; l'emploi de sources historiques secondaires permet, sous certaines conditions, des liens non-arbitraires entre evidence et interpretationread more
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Thinking Differently about Knowledge-Intensive Firms: Insights from Early Medieval Irish Monasticism:
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