社会科学与阐释问题：一种语用双重方法

IF 0.4 3区社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Critical Review Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI:10.1080/08913811.2020.1840856

Adam B. Lerner

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摘要

摘要在《无知识的权力》一书中，杰弗里·弗里德曼认为，概念复杂性会阻碍社会科学理解，并阻碍一个运作良好的技术官僚所需的可靠预测知识。然而，即使是这种有点悲观的前景也可能低估了这个问题。理想复杂性既有认知维度，也有现象维度，每一个维度都会带来独特的困境。此外，由于其方法论上的个人主义，弗里德曼的愿景可能会忽视通过社会互动产生的新兴知识层，从而创造出另一个未知的来源。考虑到这两个因素，社会科学应该在分析水平上采取多元化。这将认识到社会科学知识生产的多方面局限性，进一步加深对社会科学在技术官僚决策中潜在作用的认识谦逊。

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Social Science and the Problem of Interpretation: A Pragmatic Dual(ist) Approach

ABSTRACT In Power Without Knowledge, Jeffrey Friedman contends that ideational complexity can stymie social-scientific understanding and prevent the reliable predictive knowledge required of a well-functioning technocracy. However, even this somewhat pessimistic outlook may understate the problem. Ideational complexity has both cognitive and phenomenal dimensions, each of which poses unique dilemmas. Further, due to its methodological individualism, Friedman’s vision may neglect emergent layers of knowledge produced through social interaction, creating yet another source of unknowns. Given these two factors, social science should embrace a pluralism regarding levels of analysis. This would recognize the multifaceted limitations on social-science knowledge production, furthering epistemic humility about the potential role of social science in technocratic policymaking.

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Critical Review POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.30

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期刊介绍： Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society is a political-science journal dedicated to advancing political theory with an epistemological bent. Recurrent questions discussed in our pages include: How can political actors know what they need to know to effect positive social change? What are the sources of political actors’ beliefs? Are these sources reliable? Critical Review is the only journal in which the ideational determinants of political behavior are investigated empirically as well as being assessed for their normative implications. Thus, while normative political theorists are the main contributors to Critical Review, we also publish scholarship on the realities of public opinion, the media, technocratic decision making, ideological reasoning, and other empirical phenomena.