Explaining Society Critical Realism in the Social Sciences
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2001
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9780415221832
Published
2001-11-22
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd; Routledge
Weight
363 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
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Engelsk
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Heftet
Biographical note
Berth Danermark is Professor of Sociology in the department of Social Science, and of Caring Sciences, University of Örebro, Sweden. Mats Ekström is Professor in Sociology in the Communication and Media Studies department, University of Örebro, Sweden. Liselotte Jakobsen is Senior Researcher at Karlstad University. Jan Ch. Karlsson is Professor of Sociology, in Working Life Science, Karlstad University.<strong>'Final year undergraduates, research students and researchers seeking an alternative to positivism or relativism are likely to find </strong><em>Explaining Society</em><strong> useful, as the authors are active researchers themselves and are alive to the kinds of questions their audience are likely to ask ... the authors write clearly and do not make the common mistake of purporting to write for students and researchers while actually writing over their heads for fellow philosophers.'</strong> - <em>Journal of Critical Realism 1:1 Nov 2002</em>
This book will be immensely valuable for students and researchers in social science, sociology and philosophy in that it connects methodology, theory and empirical research. It provides an innovative picture of what society and social science is, along with the methods used to study and explain social phenomena.
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A clear introduction to the practice and theory of critical realism in social science. The first book to comprehensively present critical realism and its methodological implications for social science.
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1. Introduction 2. Science, Reality and Concepts 3. Conceptual Abstraction and Causality 4. Generalization, Scientific Inference and Models for Explanatory Social Science 5. Theory in the Methodology of Social Science 6. Critical Methodological Pluralism 7. Social Science and Practice 8. Conclusion
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Product details
ISBN
9780415221832
Published
2001-11-22
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd; Routledge
Weight
363 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet