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Beyond Relativism Raymond Boudon, Cognitive Rationality and Critical Realism
By Cynthia Lins Hamlin
Copyright 2002
168 Pages
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Routledge
166 Pages
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Routledge
166 Pages
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Routledge
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This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities. Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that critical realism represents a better safeguard against the relativism which springs from the conflation of... Read more
1. The Action Paradigm: Bringing the Agent Back In 2. Linking Structure and Agency in Boudon's Substantive Analyses 3. Beyond Homo Sociologicus and Homo Oeconomicus : a Complex Theory of Rationality 4. Understanding, Explanation and Objectivity 5. Conclusion
Biography
Cynthia Lins Hamlin is a lecturer in social theory at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. She is currently the editor of the Brazilian journal Estudos de Sociologica
