Introduction to the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences (choose at least three chapters)
Benton, Ted and Ian Craib: Philosophy of Social Science. The Philosophical Foundations of Social Thought., 2011. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
The role of the researcher (choose at least two texts) - see details about the seminars
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland: «Farewell to the gift economy?», English translation of “Farvel til gaveøkonomien”" i Bjerck Hagen, Erik and Anders Johansen (eds.): Hva skal vi med vitenskap?, 2006. Oslo, Universitetsforlaget. pp. 83-88.
Kalleberg, Ragnvald (2010). "The Ethos of Science and the Ethos of Democracy" in Craig Calhoun (red.) Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as a Science. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231151122, s. 182-213
Knorr-Cetina, Karin: "The Scientist as a Practical Reasoner: Introduction to a Constructivist and Contextual Theory of Knowledge" in Knorr-Cetina, Karin: The Manufacture of Knowledge., 1981. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
Merton, Robert K.: "The Normative Structure of Science" in Merton, R.K. and Norman W. Storer: The Sociology of Science, Theoretical and Empirical Investigations., 1942. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Mirowski, Philip: "Has Science been ‘harmed’ by the commercial regime?" in Mirowski, Philip: Science-Mart. Privatizing American Science., 2011. Cambridge, Mass and London, UK: Harvard University Press.
Nowotny, Helga et.al.: "‘Mode 2’ Revisited: The New Production of Knowledge" in Minerva, 2003. vol. 41, pp. 179–194. Fulltext
Weber, Max: "Science as a Vocation" in Gerth, H.H. and C. Wright Mills (eds.): From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, 1919/1946. New York: Oxford University Press.
Recommended Readings (choose freely from the list)
Anderson, Elizabeth (2000/2011). Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Fulltext
Asdal, Kristin: "Returning the Kingdom to the King: A Post-Constructivist Response to the Critique of Positivism" in Acta Sociologica, 2005. vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 253-261. Fulltext
Brante, Thomas: "In the Absence of Knowledge Politics – Neuropsychiatry and the Drug Industry" in Bechmann, Gotthard, Vitaly Gorokhov and Nico Stehr (red.): The Social Integration of Science., 2009. Berlin: Edition Sigma.
Cartwright, Nancy: "The vanity of rigour in economics: Theoretical models and Galilean experiments" in Fontaine, Phillippe and Robert Leonard (red.): The Experiment in the History of Economics., 2005. London: Routledge.
Elster, Jon: "Excessive Ambitions" in Capitalism & Society, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1-30. Fulltext
Gigerenzer, Gerd: "Surrogates for Theories" in Theory & Psychology, 1998. vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 195-204. Fulltext
Gobo, Giampietro: "Sampling, representativeness and generalizability" in Seale, Clive et.al. (red).: Qualitative Research Practice., 2006. London: Sage.
Guba, E. G., & Lincoln, Y. S. (1994). Competing paradigms in qualitative research. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (red.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 105-117). London: Sage.
Haraway, Donna: "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspectives" in Feminist Studies,, 1988. vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 575–599. Fulltext
Hastrup, Kirsten: "Getting it right. Knowledge and evidence in anthropology" in Anthropological Theory, 2004. vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 455-472. Fulltext
Kelle, Udo: "Sociological Explanations between Micro and Macro and the Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods" in Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2001. vol. 2, no. 1, 45 paragraphs. Fulltext
Lunbeck, Elizabeth: "Empathy as a Psychoanalytic Mode of Observation: Between Sentiment and Science" in Daston, Lorraine and Elizabeth Lunbeck (eds.): Histories of Scientific Observation., 2011. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Mjøset, Lars: "The Contextualist Approach to Social Science Methodology" in Byrne, D. & C. C. Ragin, (eds.): Handbook of Case-Based Methods., 2009. London: Sage.
Morrison, Margaret and Mary S. Morgan: "1: Introduction and 2: Models as mediating instruments" in Morgan, Mary S. and Margaret Morrison (eds.): Models as Mediators. Perspectives on Natural and Social Science., 1999. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Skjervheim, Hans (1957/1996): Deltakar og tilskodar. (Participant and observer). (available at the National Library free of charge for Norwegian IP-addresses) Fulltext
Smedslund, Jan: "The Mismatch between Current Research Methods and the Nature of Psychological Phenomena: What Researchers Must Learn from Practitioners" i nTheory & Psychology, 2009. vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 778-794. Fulltext
Thagard, Paul (ed): Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science. A volume in Handbook of the Philosophy of Science. 2007. Elsevier. Fulltext
Tsing, Anna: "Worlding the Matsutake Diaspora: Or, Can Actor–Network Theory Experiment With Holism?" in Otto, Ton and Nils Bubandt (eds.): Experiments in Holism. Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology., 2010. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Other recommended books
Baert, Patric (2005/2012): Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards Pragmatism. Cambridge: Polity
Delanty, G. & P. Strydom (2003) Philosophies of Social Science. The Classic and Contemporary Readings. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander: Philosophy of social science. (2012). Westview press. Boulder: Colorado.
Steel, Daniel & Guala, Francesco (2011): The philosophy of social science reader. Milton Park: Routledge