Literary fiction and social science. Two partially overlapping magisteria

Literary fiction and social science. Two partially overlapping magisteria

Literary fiction and social science, despite the fact that they comprise two methodologically autonomous cultures, are nonetheless creatively interfere with each other. This paper explores the multiple points of contact between literature and social science and tracks the influences that literary fi...

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Main Author: Mihai Stelian Rusu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bucharest 2014-12-01
Series:Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology
Subjects:
despite the fact that they comprise two methodologically autonomous cultures
are nonetheless creatively interfere with each other. This paper explores the multiple points of contact between literature and social science and tracks the influences that literary fiction has had on social-scientific knowledge. Nine cases of ideas originally developed in literary sphere and then taken over by various social sciences and integrated into their conceptual vocabularies form the analytic material of this study. The main argument defended in this paper is that literary fiction is a great source of ideas that can inspire theory construction in social sciences. The corpus of literary texts which make up the textual universe of literature contains many embryonically foreshadowed concepts and proto-theories that can be worked out by social sciences into full-blown scientific conceptualizations. Literary tradition is also the depository of punctual propositions that can be distilled from fiction and translated into empirically testable hypotheses. This quality of literary fiction
of providing ‘Prêt-à-tester’ propositions
Literary fiction
literature
social science
social theory
third culture
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