Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books:

Dasgupta, Partha 2007: Economics - A Very Short Introduction Oxford University press. 192 pages

Moses, Jonathon W. and Knutsen, Torbj?rn L. : Ways of Knowing. Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research, 2007. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN: 0-230-51665-3. Chapters 1-5 and, 7-8 and 10-12.

Available Online:

Gasper, Des (2001):Interdisciplinarity: Building Bridges and Nurturing a Complex Ecology of Ideas. Working Paper no 331, Institute of Social Studies. (42 pages). Download

Compendium:

Bertaux, Daniel (ed.), 1981: From the Life-History Approach to the Transformation of Sociological Practice, in Biography and society: the life history approach in the social sciences, pp 29-45, London: Sage

Campbell, Peter (1992): “Total Knowledge: book review of Hypertext by George Landow” in London Review of Books, 10 September.

Graubard, S.R (1997): “Preface to the Issue: American Academic Culture" in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines in Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Issued as Volume 126, number 1, pp V –X. Winter 1997

L?fgren, Orvar, 1990, The Danger of Knowing What You Are Looking For, On Routinizing Research, in Ethnologia Scandinavica, Vol. 20, 1990, pp 3-18

Martin, Gary J. (1995): “Data collection and hypothesis testing”, ch. 1 in Gary J. Martin: Ethnobotany. 1995. London, Chapman & Hall. Pp. 1-25.

Moe, S. Jannicke, Stenseth N.C, S.J, and Smith R.H.(2002): "Density-Dependent Compensation in Blowfly Populations Give Indirectly Positive Effects of a Toxicant" in Ecology, Vol. 83, No. 6 (Jun., 2002), pp. 1597-1603

Nesheim, I., Dhillion,S.S., St?len, K.A (2006): ”What Happens to Traditional Knowledge and Use of Natural Resources When People Migrate?” in Human Ecology, vol. 34, No. 1, February 2006.

Norgaard, R. and Paul B.(2005): “Collectively Seeing Complex Systems: The Nature of the Problem” and “ Collectively Seeing Climate Change: The Limits of Formal Models” , in BioScience 55(11): 953-960 and 961-966.

Ortner, S.(1999): "Thick Resistance: Death and the Cultural Construction of Agency in Himalaya mountaineering", in S. B. Ortner(ed) The Fate of ’Culture’: Geertz and Beyond. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Peres, C.A. et. al.(2003): ”Demographic Threats to the Sustainability of Brazil Nut Exploitation” in Science, vol 302, 19 December 2003.

Schorske, C.(1997): “The New Rigorism in the Human Sciences, 1940-60”, in Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Issued as Volume 126, number 1pp 289- 310 Winter 1997

Schulze et al. 2008. How rare is too rare to harvest? Management challenges posed by timber species occurring at low densities in the Brazilian Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management 256:1443-1457.

Smith, M.(1998): Social Science in Question. London: Sage, chapter 5, pp.183 - 218.

Stern, Paul C (2005): ”Deliberative Methods for Understanding Environmental Systems” in BioScience 55(11), 976-982

Syse, Karen, 2001: Ethics in the Woods, in Short Communications, Taylor and Francis Ltd

Taylor, Charles. "Interpretation and the Sciences of Man" , in Philosophy and the Human Sciences, Philosophical Papers 2. Cambridge University Press. 1985. pages 15-57

Wilhite, H., H. Nakagami, T. Masuda, Y. Yamaga and H. Haneda (2001): "A cross-cultural analysis of household energy-use behavior in Japan and Norway." Reprinted in D. Miller (ed), Consumption: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, Vol 4, pages 159-177, London and New York: Routledge.

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