Social science is explanation or it is nothing.” Introduction to a debate

Krause, Monika ORCID: 0000-0002-8699-5496 (2024) Social science is explanation or it is nothing.” Introduction to a debate. British Journal of Sociology. ISSN 0007-1315

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Abstract

This essay introduces contributions to a special section, which documents and extends a debate on the proposition “Social Science is Explanation or it is Nothing” held at the London School of Economics on October 13 th, 2022. It discusses the history of the “Group for Theoretical Debates in Anthropology” led by Tim Ingold, Peter Wade and Soumhya Venkatesan, which has handed down a list of credible candidates for issues that had a chance of engaging every anthropologist, including students and those with interdisciplinary interests. It raises questions about the specific affordances of debates as forms of academic engagements. It argues that the chosen proposition concerning explanation invites a discussion about the contributions of the social sciences at a time when impulses from science and technology studies as well as fruitful exchanges across the boundary between “theory” and “method” have helped us moved beyond the older question as to whether or not sociology is “a science”.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14684446
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author
Divisions:	Sociology
Subjects:	H Social Sciences H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Date Deposited:	01 May 2024 23:16
Last Modified:	25 Nov 2024 20:57
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122868

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