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Realism and Social Science

BuchKartoniert, Paperback
224 Seiten
Englisch
Sage Publicationserschienen am29.12.1999
A guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other traditions in social science. It criticizes reductionism and determinism in "modernist" social science, along with postmodernism, anti-essentialism and constructionism.mehr
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Produkt

KlappentextA guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other traditions in social science. It criticizes reductionism and determinism in "modernist" social science, along with postmodernism, anti-essentialism and constructionism.
ZusammenfassungRealism and Social Science offers the reader an authoritative and compelling guide to critical realism and its implications for social theory and for the practice of social science. It offers an alternative both to approaches which are overly confident about the possibility of a successful social science and those which are defeatist about any possibility of progress in understanding the social world. Written by one of the leading social theorists in the field, it demonstrates the virtues of critical realism for theory and empirical research in social science, and provides a critical engagement with leading non-realist approaches.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-7619-6124-6
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr1999
Erscheinungsdatum29.12.1999
Seiten224 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht338 g
Artikel-Nr.13533027

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
PART ONE: INTRODUCING CRITICAL REALISMIntroductionKey Features of Critical Realism in Practice A Brief IntroductionPART TWO: POSTMODERN-REALIST ENCOUNTERSIntroductionRealism for ScepticsPostmodernism and the Three `PoMo' FlipsEssentialism, Social Constructionism and BeyondPART THREE: Social Science and SpaceIntroductionSpace and Social TheoryGeohistorical Explanation and Problems of NarrativePART FOUR: CRITICAL REALISM: FROM CRITIQUE TO NORMATIVE THEORYIntroductionCritical Realism and the Limits to Critical Social ScienceEthics Unbound For a Normative Turn in Social Theorymehr
Kritik
`Sayer makes a direct contribution to the glaring academic divide between law finding, positivists and relativist post-modernist researchers, providing a middle pathway via critical realism (CR) to scientific explanation. He offers a clear definition of CR and successfully tackles various misunderstandings and critisims of this alternative approach. While this is not cutting edge CR, the arguments contained are well worth repeating to a discipline that is a little hard of hearing.... a number of Sayer's provocative arguments have stayed with me, long after setting his book "to rest" on the shelf, challenging my own research agenda' -Journal of Economic and Social Geography




`This is a most welcome addition to the growing literature on critical realism and its implications for social science. For some time now a book has been needed that is inter-disciplinary in its content and lucid in its exposition of critical realism. The author is to be congratulated in aiming to fill this gap' - Tim May, Dept of Sociology, University of Durhammehr