05368oam 2200817I 450 99620222320331620230617005926.01-134-50606-61-134-50607-40-203-11670-41-280-18203-20-203-16394-X10.4324/9780203116708 (CKB)1000000000253133(EBL)171059(OCoLC)252708540(SSID)ssj0001148496(PQKBManifestationID)12508515(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001148496(PQKBWorkID)11144265(PQKB)10624420(SSID)ssj0000307752(PQKBManifestationID)11226659(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000307752(PQKBWorkID)10243943(PQKB)11248317(MiAaPQ)EBC171059(Au-PeEL)EBL171059(CaPaEBR)ebr10099441(CaONFJC)MIL18203(OCoLC)52987515(EXLCZ)99100000000025313320180331d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRealism and sociology anti-foundationalism, ontology and social research /Justin CruickshankLondon ;New York :Routledge,2003.1 online resource (183 p.)Routledge studies in critical realism ;5Description based upon print version of record.0-415-43685-0 0-415-26190-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-168) and index.Cover; Realism and Sociology; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The philosophical logic of immediacy: the epistemic fallacy and the genetic fallacy; Introduction; Popper and the critique of positivism; Popper on post-Kantian epistemology, falsifiability and metaphysical realism; Popper, the epistemic fallacy and the genetic fallacy; Putnam's critique of metaphysical realism; Internal realism: conceptual relativity and realism; Searle on external realism and conceptual relativity; Putnam and the philosophical logic of immediacy2 The influence of empiricism on social ontology: methodological individualism and methodological collectivismIntroduction; Anticipating the sociological logic of immediacy; Methodological individualism defined; Assessing methodological individualism: the need for a non-individualist ontology; Methodological collectivism: overcoming the problems?; 3 Post-Wittgensteinian pragmatism: Rorty, anti-representationalism and politics; Introduction; Realism and representation; Anti-representationalism and the philosophical logic of immediacy; Liberalism and ethnocentrism; Nietzschean liberalismPoetry contra politicsPragmatism and female being; From postmodernism to positivistic-conservatism; 4 Post-Wittgensteinian sociology: Giddens' ontology of practices; Introduction; The importance of ontology; Rule-following practices; The ontological status of structures; Problems with rules; Problems with linking the micro and the macro levels; What is the purpose of structuration theory? Or, what is the link between ontology and methodology?; 5 Social realism: overcoming the sociological logic of immediacy; IntroductionBhaskar on the philosophy of science: from empirical realism to transcendental realismTranscendental realist naturalism: Bhaskar's social ontology; Developing the ontology; Challenges to social realism; Rejoinder to the challenges; 6 Social realism and the study of chronic unemployment; Introduction; Defining the underclass; Studying the chronically unemployed as members of the working class; Doing 'fiddly jobs': an ethnographic understanding of coping strategies to deal with structural unemployment; The role of gender; The underclass and the sociological logic of immediacyRealism as an underlabourerNotes for the construction of a domain-specific meta-theory for researching the chronically unemployed in Britain; Notes; Bibliography; IndexIn recent years, methodological debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on issues relating to epistemology. Realism and Sociology makes an original contribution to the debate, charting a middle ground between postmodernism and positivism.Critics often hold that realism tries to assume some definitive account of reality. Against this it is argued throughout the book that realism can combine a strong definition of social reality with an anti-foundational approach to knowledge. The position of realist anti-foundationalism that is argued for is developed and defended Routledge studies in critical realism ;5.SociologyMethodologySociologyPhilosophyRealismOntologySociologyMethodology.SociologyPhilosophy.Realism.Ontology.301/.0171.02bclCruickshank Justin1969,988397MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996202223203316Realism and sociology2260192UNISA