The A Priori Method in the Social Sciences [electronic resource] : A Multidisciplinary Approach / edited by Jean-Sylvestre Bergé.

Part I: Law, Philosophy -- 1. Towards a New Antecedent Legal Method -- 2. The Cultural Dimension of Law -- 3. Is Legal Knowledge a Knowledge of Object?- 4. Antecedent and Ontology: in Search of the Smallest Possible A Priori -- 5. The Private/Public Divide among the Principles of Worldbuilding: Insights from Godelier, Fortes, and Arendt -- 6. The A priori: a Structure of an Ascendant Imaginary -- 7. Are Numbers A Priori Like any Other?- Part II: Economics, Management -- 8. Antecedents in Labor Economics -- 9. Blockchain: Antecedents and Future Challenges -- 10. A Priori to Investigate Innovation in Management Science -- Part III: Anthropology, Sociology -- 11. Not Having an A Priori has Become the Anthropological A Priori: Multiple Forms of Knowledge are Produced in Ethnographic Experiments -- 12. The Investigation as an Antecedent in Sociology and other A Priori.

What came before our disciplines? What are our a priori? These questions, which come to us from the theory of knowledge, have been the subject of numerous works. This book brings together contributions from authors from France, Brazil, Israel and the United States, specialized in different disciplines, including law, philosophy, economics, management, anthropology and sociology. It has the entirely original ambition to place social sciences at the heart of these fundamental questions in an effort to establish a dialogue between our various branches of knowledge, both within and beyond the academic community, about the different postulates, presuppositions, prejudices, paradigms, beliefs, commonplaces, biases, and emotions that forge our theoretical and practical constructs. .