Contributions to Social Ontology

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ISBN: 9780415403733 | 0415403731
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Copyright: 1/23/2007

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Engaging with the increasing interdisciplinary popularity of ontology, this book explores the effect it is having, but also how it it itself evolving in new and fascinating ways.

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Figures and tables	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction: ontology, philosophy and the social sciences	p. 1
Ontology and social theory	p. 15
The ontological status of subjectivity: the missing link between structure and agency	p. 17
Technology, technological determinism and the transformational model of social activity	p. 32
Ontological theorising and the assumptions issue in economics	p. 50
Wittgenstein and the ontology of the social: some Kripkean reflections on Bourdieu's 'Theory of Practice'	p. 68
Deducing natural necessity from purposive activity: the scientific realist logic of Habermas' theory of communicative action and Luhmann's systems theory	p. 89
'Under-labouring' for ethics: Lukacs's critical ontology	p. 102
Ontology and philosophy	p. 125
Quine and the ontological turn in economics	p. 127
Tracking down the transcendental argument and the synthetic a priori: chasing fairies or serious ontological business?	p. 142
Re-examining Bhaskar's three ontological domains: the lessons from emergence	p. 160
Real, invented or applied? Some reflections on scientific objectivity and social ontology	p. 177
Theorising ontology	p. 192
Ontology and applied research	p. 205
Freedom, possibility and ontology: rethinking the problem of 'competitive ascent' in the Caribbean	p. 207
On the ontology of international norm diffusion	p. 231
Realist social theorising and the emergence of state educational systems	p. 252
The educational limits of critical realism? Emancipation and rational agency in the compulsory years of schooling	p. 273
Economics and autism: why the drive towards closure?	p. 293
Applying critical realism: re-conceptualising the emergent English early music performer labour market	p. 304
Index	p. 324
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