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Realism and social science / Andrew Sayer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847876836
  • 1847876838
  • 0761961240
  • 9780761961246
  • 9781446218730
  • 1446218732
  • 0585300771
  • 9780585300771
  • 6611897631
  • 9786611897635
  • 1446236056
  • 9781446236055
  • 1281897639
  • 9781281897633
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Realism and social science.DDC classification:
  • 300.72 22
LOC classification:
  • H61 .S39 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Part One. INTRODUCING CRITICAL REALISMIntroduction -- Key Features of Critical Realism in Practice A Brief Introduction -- Part Two. POSTMODERN-REALIST ENCOUNTERSIntroduction -- Realism for Sceptics -- Postmodernism and the Three 'Po -- Mo' Flips -- Essentialism, Social Constructionism and Beyond -- Part Three. Social Science and Space -- Introduction -- Space and Social Theory -- Geohistorical Explanation and Problems of Narrative -- Part Four. CRITICAL REALISM: FROM CRITIQUE TO NORMATIVE THEORYIntroduction -- Critical Realism and the Limits to Critical Social Science -- Ethics Unbound For a Normative Turn in Social Theory.
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Summary: Realism and Social Science offers an authoritative guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other leading traditions in social science. It is illustrated throughout with relevant and accessible examples.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-199) and index.

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Realism and Social Science offers an authoritative guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other leading traditions in social science. It is illustrated throughout with relevant and accessible examples.

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Part One. INTRODUCING CRITICAL REALISMIntroduction -- Key Features of Critical Realism in Practice A Brief Introduction -- Part Two. POSTMODERN-REALIST ENCOUNTERSIntroduction -- Realism for Sceptics -- Postmodernism and the Three 'Po -- Mo' Flips -- Essentialism, Social Constructionism and Beyond -- Part Three. Social Science and Space -- Introduction -- Space and Social Theory -- Geohistorical Explanation and Problems of Narrative -- Part Four. CRITICAL REALISM: FROM CRITIQUE TO NORMATIVE THEORYIntroduction -- Critical Realism and the Limits to Critical Social Science -- Ethics Unbound For a Normative Turn in Social Theory.

English.

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