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Critical realism, history, and philosophy in the social sciences /
This volume examines the relationship between history, philosophy, and social science, and contributors explore questions concerning realism, ontology, causation, explanation, and values in order to address the question ""what does a post-positivist social science look like?""
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley, UK :
Emerald Publishing,
2018.
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| Colección: | Political power and social theory ;
v. 34. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Critical Realism, History, and Philosophy in The Social Sciences; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Senior Editorial Board; Student Editorial Board; Editorial Statement; Series Editor's Introduction; Crisis!? What Crisis!? On Social Theory and Reflexivity; Introduction; Get Real; What Is Theory? And Where Does Critical Realism Fit?; Contemporary Definitions; Defining the Logic of Theory, Metatheory, and Ontology; The Place of Ontology; Conclusions and Summary; Chapter Overview; Notes; Acknowledgment; References
- After Positivism: Critical Realism and Historical SociologyCausation in History: Positivist and Realist approaches; Reduction and Emergence: Methodological Individualism and Historical Sociology; Conclusion: "Value Freedom" and Historical Sociology; Notes; References; Uses of Value Judgments in Science: A General Argument, with Lessons from a Case Study of Feminist Research on Divorce; Rethinking the Underdetermination Argument for Value-Laden Science; The Orthodox Case for Value-Neutral Science; The Orthodox Case Evaluated: Can There be Evidence for Value Judgments?
- The Bidirectional Influence of Facts and Values: A Case Study of Feminist ScienceHow to Use Value Judgments to Guide Science in Legitimate and Fruitful Ways; Legitimacy; Fruitfulness; Normative Authority; Noncognitive Intrinsic Value Judgments; Models; Notes; Acknowledgment; References; Principles of Reconstructive Social Theory; What Is Reconstructive Social Theory?; Metatheory: The Philosophical Foundations; Social Theory: Agency, Culture, and Social Change; Sociological Theory: The Ontology of the Present; Acknowledgment; References
- Conjunctures and Assemblages: Approaches to Multicausal Explanation in the Human SciencesConjunctures; The Althusserian Tradition; Sahlins and Sewell; Critical Realism; Reviewing Conjunctures; Assemblages; Comparing and Applying Conjunctures and Assemblages; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix; Strange Bedfellows? Ontology, Normativity, Critical Realism, and Queer Theory; Introduction; The Riddle of Normativity; Naturalism versus Critique; A Genealogy: The Cradle of Social Science: Naturalism and Realism; Critical Realism and Critical Ethical Naturalism
- Against Naturalism, Critical, Cautious, or OtherwiseThe Critical Tradition; The Critique of Critique; Queer Theory as a Case Study: Queering Ontology; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgment; References; Index