Realism and Social Science

TRAMA

Realism and Social Science offers the reader an authoritative and compelling guide to critical realism and its implications for social theory and for the practice of social science. It offers an alternative both to approaches which are overly confident about the possibility of a successful social science and those which are defeatist about any possibility of progress in understanding the social world. Written by one of the leading social theorists in the field, it demonstrates the virtues of critical realism for theory and empirical research in social science, and provides a critical engagement with leading non-realist approaches.</p> <p>

SOMMARIO

PART ONE: INTRODUCING CRITICAL REALISMIntroductionKey Features of Critical Realism in Practice A Brief IntroductionPART TWO: POSTMODERN-REALIST ENCOUNTERSIntroductionRealism for ScepticsPostmodernism and the Three `PoMo' FlipsEssentialism, Social Constructionism and BeyondPART THREE: Social Science and SpaceIntroductionSpace and Social TheoryGeohistorical Explanation and Problems of NarrativePART FOUR: CRITICAL REALISM: FROM CRITIQUE TO NORMATIVE THEORYIntroductionCritical Realism and the Limits to Critical Social ScienceEthics Unbound For a Normative Turn in Social Theory

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780761961246
• Dimensioni: 9.2100 x 6.1400 in
• Formato: Paperback / softback
• Pagine Arabe: 224