Julian Barnes: Toward a Minor History

Toward a social history of qualitative research

There are plausible academic as well as social indicators that qualitative research has become an indispensable part of the methodological repertoire of the social sciences. Relying upon the tenets of the qualitative approach which require a priority of subject matter over method and a necessary socio-historical contextualization, I reconstruct some aspects of a social history that have shaped ...

a fundamental study of "histiriographic metafiction", and "literary genres", as introduced in "new historical philosophy", and tracing them in the works of julian barnes.

abstract a fundamental study of “historio-graphic metafiction” and “literary genres”, as introduced in “new historical philosophy”, and tracing them in the works of julian barnes having studied the two novels, the porcupine and arthur & george, by julian barnes, the researcher has applied linda hutcheon’s historio-graphic metafictional theories to them. the thesis is divided into five cha...

The psychopharmacological era: notes toward a history.

Cultural and economic influences on the psychopharmacological era are reviewed, in an attempt to bring into focus what has been happening in psychopharmacology for the past thirty years. It is argued that the belief that clinical advances are made through the heroic achievements of disinterested scientists is a simplistic view that may militate against future significant discoveries. Such disco...

Toward a History of Management Thought

The history of management thought suffers from a constricted efinition of its subject. Constituent fields (marketing) and cognate fields (economics and law) are often neglected in studies of the subject. The term "thought" tends to be equated to knowledge, and thus given a positivist cast, or described in instrumental terms and thereby reduced to a generalized form of practice. The history of m...

Julian Steward