LEADER 03233nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910170994203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-87451-634-X 010 $a1-134-57592-0 010 $a1-134-57593-9 010 $a1-280-40187-7 010 $a0-203-28309-0 010 $a0-203-16753-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203167533 035 $a(CKB)1000000000000926 035 $a(EBL)167624 035 $a(OCoLC)437077167 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000289923 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11221660 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289923 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10408380 035 $a(PQKB)10181544 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000906300 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12376755 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000906300 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10931035 035 $a(PQKB)11674276 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC167624 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL167624 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr5003507 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL40187 035 $a(OCoLC)52849411 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000000926 100 $a20010807d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeyond relativism $eRaymond Boudon, cognitive rationality and critical realism /$fCynthia Lins Hamlin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (167 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge studies in critical realism ;$v2 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-52399-0 311 $a0-415-25851-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [142]-148) and index. 327 $aBook Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The action paradigm: bringing the agent back in; Linking structure and agency in Boudon's substantive analyses; Beyond Homo sociologicus and Homo economicus: a complex theory of rationality; Understanding, explanation and objectivity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThis book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities. Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that critical realism represents a better safeguard against the relativism which springs from the conflation of social reality and our ideas about it. This is an important book for sociologists and anyone working in the social sciences, and for all those concerned with the methodology, and philosophy, of 410 0$aRoutledge studies in critical realism ;$v2. 606 $aSocial psychology 606 $aSocial perception 606 $aCultural relativism 606 $aCognition and culture 615 0$aSocial psychology. 615 0$aSocial perception. 615 0$aCultural relativism. 615 0$aCognition and culture. 676 $a302 700 $aHamlin$b Cynthia Lins$f1969-$01757742 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910170994203321 996 $aBeyond relativism$94195692 997 $aUNINA