Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Positivism and Its Others in the Social Sciences / George Steinmetz 1 Part One. Positivism and Nonpositivism in Twentieth-Century Social Science Anthropology Estrangement, Intimacy, and the Objects of Anthropology / Webb Keane 59 Area Studies/Asian Studies The Trick of Words: Asian Studies, Translation, and the Problems of Knowledge / Michael Dutton 89 Economics Economists and the Economy in the Twentieth Century / Timothy Mitchell 126 Economics/Philosophy of Science How Positivism Made a Pact with the Postwar Social Sciences in the United States / Philip Mirowski 142 History The Political Unconscious of Social and Cultural History, or, Confessions of a Former Quantitative Historian / William H. Sewell Jr. 173 Political Science/Political Theory Defining "Theory" in Postwar Political Science / Emily Hauptmann 207 Sociology and Economics Beware Trojan Horses Bearing Social Capital: How Privatization Turned Solidarity into a Bowling Team / Margaret R. Somers 233 Sociology Scientific Authority and the Transition to Post-Fordism: The Plausibility of Positivism in U. S. Sociology since 1945 / George Steinmetz 275 Part Two. Alternatives to Positivism in the Human Sciences Philosophy and Critical Realism Critical Realism / Andrew Collier 327 Philosophy and Standpoint Theory Negotiating with a Positivist Legacy: New Social Justice Movements and a Standpoint Politics of Method / Sandra Harding 346 Economics and Critical Realism A Perspective on Modern Economics / Tony Lawson 366 Process and Temporality in Sociology The Idea of Outcome in U.
S. Sociology / Andrew Abbott 393 Psychoanalysis as Critique Psychoanalysis and the Theory of the Subject / Anthony Elliott 427 Sociology of Science The Real and the Imaginary in Economic Methodology / Daniel Breslau 451 Making Sense In and Of Political Science Facts, Values, and "Real" Numbers / Sophia Mihic, Stephen G. Engelmann, and Elizabeth Rose Wingrove 470 Being Undisciplined On Your Marx: From Cultural History to the History of Society / Geoff Eley 496 Conclusion: Provincializing the Social Sciences / Michael Burawoy 508 References 527 Contributors 583 Index 587 Citation Index 607.