Armchair theorizing
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Armchair theory is an approach to providing new developments in a field that does not involve analysis of empirical (real-world) data. The term is typically pejorative, implying such scholarship is weak, frivolous, and disconnected from reality.[1]
Armchair scholarship is often contrasted with the scientific method, which involves the active investigation of nature through data collection or testing and developing rigorous mathematical models. Anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski was a major critic whose views are often summarized in the saying "[come] off the verandah", encouraging fieldwork and participant observation.[2]: 10–13 [3]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ See, for example, Nadel (1956:173), who defines armchair anthropology.
- ^ Boon, James A. (1982), Other Tribes, Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the Comparative Study of Cultures, Histories, Religions and Texts, CUP Archive, ISBN 978-0-521-27197-4
- ^ Gioia, Dennis A. (1 April 1999), "Practicability, Paradigms, and Problems in Stakeholder Theorizing", Academy of Management Review, 24 (2): 228–232, doi:10.5465/amr.1999.1893931, ISSN 0363-7425
References
[edit]- Ingold, Tim (2007), "Anthropology is not ethnography", Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 154, pp. 69–92
- Nadel, S.F. (1956), "Understanding primitive peoples", Oceania, 26 (3): 159–173, doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1956.tb00676.x
External links
[edit]- Discussion of On the Politics of Accounting Disclosure and Measurement: An Analysis of Economic Incentives, Dale Morse, Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 19, Studies on Standardization of Accounting Practices: An Assessment of Alternative Institutional Arrangements (1981), pp. 36–42, doi:10.2307/2490981
- Planning Theory, In Defense of Armchair Theorizing, Seymour J. Mandelbaum, doi:10.1177/1473095206064975