Realism and Sociology: Anti-Foundationalism, Ontology and Social Research

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ISBN: 9780415261906 | 0415261902
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/28/2002

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In recent years methodological debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on issues relating to epistemology.Realism and Sociologymakes an original contribution to the debate, charting a middle ground between postmodernism and positivism.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
The philosophical logic of immediacy: the epistemic fallacy and the genetic fallacy	p. 7
The influence of empiricism on social ontology: methodological individualism and methodological collectivism	p. 27
Post-Wittgensteinian pragmatism: Rorty, anti-representationalism and politics	p. 37
Post-Wittgensteinian sociology: Giddens' ontology of practices	p. 69
Social realism: overcoming the sociological logic of immediacy	p. 95
Social realism and the study of chronic unemployment	p. 122
Notes	p. 154
Bibliography	p. 161
Index	p. 169
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Realism and Sociology: Anti-Foundationalism, Ontology and Social Research

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