Communication Theory: Epistemological Foundations

by James A. Anderson

Book Overview

This book provides a thorough analysis of the scientific, critical, and cultural questions at the foundation of theory-building in communication and other social sciences. Any claim to knowledge, the author explains, can be analyzed in terms of a series of characteristics: the object of its explanation, the explanatory form and evidentiary method employed, its characteristic explanations, the scope of its performance, and its consequences of value...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572300833
• ISBN13: 9781572300835
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"