1st Edition
Realism and Sociology Anti-Foundationalism, Ontology and Social Research
By Justin Cruickshank
Copyright 2003
184 Pages
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Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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In recent years, methodological debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on issues relating to epistemology. Realism and Sociology makes an original contribution to the debate, charting a middle ground between postmodernism and positivism. Critics often hold that realism tries to assume some definitive account of reality. Against this it is argued throughout the book that realism... Read more
1. The Philosophical Logic of Immediacy: the Epistemic Fallacy and the Genetic Fallacy 2. The Influence of Empiricism on Social Ontology: Methodological Individualism and Methodological Collectivism 3. Post-Wittgensteinian Pragmatism: Rorty, Anti-Representationalism and Politics 4. Post-Wittgensteinian Sociology: Giddens' Ontology of Practices 5. Social Realism: Overcoming the Sociological Logic of Immediacy 6. Social Realism and the Study of Chronic Unemployment
Biography
Justin Cruickshank is a lecturer in Methodology and the Philosophy of Social Science in the Nottingham Graduate School for Social Research, at Nottingham Trent University. He is the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Critical Realism.
