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Realism and Social Science.
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Sage Publications,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 Key Features of Critical Realism in Practice: A Brief Outline; 2 Realism for Sceptics; 3 Postmodernism and the Three 'Pomo Flips'; 4 Essentialism, Social Constructionism and Beyond; 5 Space and Social Theory; 6 Geohistorical Explanation and Problems of Narrative; 7 Critical Realism and the Limits to Critical Social Science; 8 Ethics Unbound: For a Normative Turn in Social Theory1; References; Index.