Realism and Social Science
by
Andrew Sayer
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0761961232
ISBN-13
9780761961239
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint
SAGE Publications Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 29th, 1999
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
470 grams
Product Classification:
Social theory
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A guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other traditions in social science. It criticizes reductionism and determinism in "modernist" social science, along with postmodernism, anti-essentialism and constructionism.
Realism and Social Science offers the reader an authoritative and compelling guide to critical realism and its implications for social theory and for the practice of social science. It offers an alternative both to approaches which are overly confident about the possibility of a successful social science and those which are defeatist about any possibility of progress in understanding the social world. Written by one of the leading social theorists in the field, it demonstrates the virtues of critical realism for theory and empirical research in social science, and provides a critical engagement with leading non-realist approaches.
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