The format as in iron cage : writing in sociology and anthropology

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Alpar, Danende Zeynep

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This thesis analyzes the prevailing formats of writing in sociology or anthropology that are considered scientific. For whom are sociology and anthropology texts written, and who are the readers of these texts? How does this format of writing that constitutes a text as scientific influence the text-reader relationship? In discussing this, the legitimate ways of writing of sociology and anthropology are presented together with what scientificity brings. the reflexive critique that looks at sociology and anthropology with the very methods of these disciplines is explained in its main lines. within this debate, the importance of the question "whom the texts produced in these sciences are intended for?" is analyzed. This is followed by a discussion of the conditions that enabled the constitution of the conventional forms of expression in sciences. The concept of paradigm as proposed by Thomas Kuhn is used to explain the formation of these conditions.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18885

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D. Z. Alpar, “The format as in iron cage : writing in sociology and anthropology ,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2009.