Beyond relativism : Raymond Boudon, cognitive rationality and critical realism / / Cynthia Lins Hamlin

• Autore: Hamlin Cynthia Lins <1969->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (167 p.)
• Disciplina: 302
• Soggetto topico: Social psychology; Social perception; Cultural relativism; Cognition and culture
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [142]-148) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book 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
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond relativism
• ISBN: 0-87451-634-X; 1-134-57592-0; 1-134-57593-9; 1-280-40187-7; 0-203-28309-0; 0-203-16753-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910170994203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in critical realism ; ; 2.