124 Pages
by
Routledge
124 Pages
by
Routledge
124 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the question of how our knowledge of social life affects, and ought to affect, our way of living it. In so doing, it critically discusses two epistemological models of social science – the positivist and the interpretive – from the viewpoint of the political theories which, it is argued, are implicit in these models; moreover, it proposes a third model – the critical – which is... Read more
1. Introduction: Theory and Practice 2. Positivist Social Science and Technological Politics 3. Criticisms of the Positivist View of Social Science and Politics 4. An Alternative View: Interpretive Social Science 5. The Future: Development of a Critical Social Science
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Fay, Brian
