Within the disciplines of social, economic, and evolutionary science, a proud ignorance can often be found of the other areas’ approaches. This text provides a novel intellectual basis for breaking this trend. Certainly, Human Sciences and Human Interests aspires to open a broad debate about what scholars in the different human sciences assume, imply or explicitly claim with regard to human interests.Mikael Klintman draws the reader to the core of human sciences - how they conceive human interests, as well as how interests embedded within each discipline relate to its claims and recommendations. Moreover, by comparing theories as well as concrete examples of research on health and environment through the lenses of social, economic and evolutionary sciences, Klintman outlines an integrative framework for how human interests could be better analysed across all human sciences.This fast-paced and modern contribution to the field is a necessary tool for developing any human scientist’s ability to address multidimensional problems within a rapidly changing society. Avoiding dogmatic reasoning, this interdisciplinary text offers new insights and will be especially relevant to scholars and advanced students within the aforementioned disciplines, as well as those within the fields of social work, social policy, political science and other neighbouring disciplines.
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This book analyzes how the 'rival' approaches of social science, economics, and evolutionary science understand various dimensions of human interests, and what these human sciences can learn from each other.
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IntroductionPart I: Manifest and Latent Interests1. Dual systems in the human sciences2. The Apollonian dimension3. The Dionysian dimensionPart II: Universal and Culturally Specific Interests4. Glory, honour, or at least esteem5. The blank slate and its critics6. Understanding the prepared slatePart III: Interests, Continuity and Change7. Economics: Interests, continuity and change8. Social science: Interests, continuity & change9. Evolutionary theory: Interests, continuity and changeConclusionsReferences
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ISBN
9781138897984
Publisert
2016-08-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
204

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Mikael Klintman is Professor of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden, and Visiting Academic of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University, UK. He studies obstacles to knowledge exchange across the human sciences in issues of environment and health. Klintman’s previous publications include Citizen-Consumers and Evolution (Palgrave, 2012).