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Method in social science : a realist approach /

Widely praised on its first publication, this second edition directly reflects new developments in the areas of philosophy and method.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sayer, R. Andrew
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
Édition:2nd ed.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface to the second edition page; Introduction; Knowledge in context Some misconceptions about knowledge; Knowledge, work and communicative interaction; The relationship between subject and object; Some implications of subject-object relations; Versteh; Theory, observation and practical adequacy Knowledge and object; 'Theory'; The conceptual mediation of perception; Sense and reference and the conceptual and the empirical; Truth and practical adequacy; ; Theory and method I: abstraction, structure and cause Abstraction and structural analysis.