Critical realism and the social sciences : heterodox elaborations / / edited by Jon Frauley and Frank Pearce

• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2007; ©2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource text (xxii, 349 pages) : illustrations, digital file
• Disciplina: 300
• Soggetto topico: Social sciences - Philosophy; Critical realism; Marxist criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): FrauleyJon <1972->; PearceFrank
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Benton, Ted -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Critical Realism and the Social Sciences: Methodological and Epistemological Preliminaries / Frauley, Jon / Pearce, Frank -- 2. Bhaskar's Critical Realism: An Appreciative Introduction and a Friendly Critique / Pearce, Frank -- 3. For Realism, and Anti-Realism / Sismondo, Sergio -- 4. Critical Realism and God / Potter, Garry -- 5. Rescuing Reflexivity: From Solipsism to Realism / Woodiwiss, Anthony -- 6. More Than Straw Figures in Straw Houses: Toward a Revaluation of Critical Realism's Conception of Post-structuralist Theory / Day, Richard -- 7. Thinking across the Culture/ Nature Divide: An Empirical Study of Issues for Critical Realism and Social Constructionism / Murphy, Raymond -- 8. Beyond Cognitive Critiques: Getting Real about Politics / López, José Julián -- 9. Objectivity and Marxian Political Economy / Albritton, Robert -- 10. Why Is This Labour Value? Commodity-Producing Labour as a Social Kind / Engelskirchen, Howard -- 11. The Relation between Marxism and Critical Realism / Ehrbar, Hans -- 12. Understanding Why Anything Matters: Needy Beings, Flourishing, and Suffering / Sayer, Andrew -- 13. The Expulsion of Foucault from Governmentality Studies: Toward an Archaeological-Realist Retrieval / Frauley, Jon -- 14. From Foucault's Genealogy to Aleatory Materialism: Realism, Nominalism, and Politics / Datta, Ronjon Paul -- 15. Gadamer's Minimal Realism / Chodos, Howie / Curtis, Bruce / Hunt, Alan / Manwaring, John -- Bibliography -- Name Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Critical realism is a distinct school of thought in philosophy and the social sciences that has been expanding and growing in significance over the past three decades. It offers important insights into the nature of both our social and natural world, and the nature of the social sciences by challenging conventional notions of the relationship between empirical experiences, actual events, and causal mechanisms. Critical Realism and the Social Sciences brings together contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, all of whom engage with tenets of critical realism, juxtaposing them with traditional representations of social scientific enquiry.United in the belief that the conceptual systems hitherto relied upon affect our styles of thought, ethical choices, political orientations, and so on, the contributors explore realism in relation to other currents of theoretical thought, thus suggesting a basis for evaluation and further elaboration of critical realism. As a whole, the volume seeks to show how this particular approach provides a way to better understand many aspects of social existence, from human attributes to the interrelatedness of human activities and the natural world. In this much-needed study, critical realism is carefully examined, sympathetically assessed, and creatively developed by authors from diverse disciplinary backgrounds.
• Titolo autorizzato: Critical realism and the social sciences
• ISBN: 1-4426-8423-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456366303321
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