Critical realism, history, and philosophy in the social sciences

Social science, history, and philosophy have often been neglect in thinking through their fundamentally intertwined relationship. The result is often an inattention to philosophy where social science and history is concerned, or a neglect of historicity and social analysis where philosophy is concer...

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Other Authors Rutzou, Timothy (Editor), Steinmetz, George, 1957- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
SeriesPolitical power and social theory ; v. 34.
Subjects
Philosophy and social sciences.
Social sciences and history.
Ontology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781787566033
9781787566057
ISSN0198-8719 ;
DOI10.1108/S0198-8719201834
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 162 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • Crisis!? What crisis!? On social theory and reflexivity
  • After positivism: critical realism and historical sociology
  • Uses of value judgments in science: a general argument, with lessons from a case study of feminist research on divorce
  • Principles of reconstructive social theory
  • Conjunctures and assemblages: approaches to multicausal explanation in the human sciences
  • Strange bedfellows? Ontology, normativity, critical realism, and queer theory
  • Index.

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