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Autore: | Sayer R. Andrew |
Titolo: | Realism and social science / / Andrew Sayer |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; Thousand Oaks, CA, : Sage, 2000 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (211 p.) : ill |
Disciplina: | 300.72 |
Soggetto topico: | Social sciences - Research |
Critical realism | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-199) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""Cover ""; ""Contents""; ""PART I - INTRODUCING CRITICAL REALISM""; ""Introduction""; ""1Key Features of Critical Realism in Practice: A Brief Outline""; ""PART II - POSTMODERN-REALIST ENCOUNTERS""; ""Introduction""; ""2 Realism for Sceptics""; ""3 Postmodernism and the Three 'Pomo Flips'""; ""4 Essentialism, Social Constructionism and Beyond""; ""PART III - SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SPACE""; ""Introduction""; ""5 Space and Social Theory""; ""6 Geohistorical Explanation and Problems of Narrative""; ""7 Critical Realism and the Limits to Critical Social Science"" |
""PART IV - CRITICAL REALISM: FROM CRITIQUE TO NORMATIVE THEORY""""8 Ethics Unbound: For a NormativeTurn in Social Theory""; ""References""; ""Index"" | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Realism and social science |
ISBN: | 1-4462-3605-6 |
1-281-89763-9 | |
1-4462-1873-2 | |
1-84787-683-8 | |
9786611897635 | |
0-585-30077-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910810474703321 |
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