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Social science : philosophical and methodological foundations / Gerard Delanty.

By:

Delanty, Gerard [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Concepts in the social sciencesPublisher: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2005Edition: Second editionDescription: x, 197 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0335217222
9780335217229
0335217214
9780335217212

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Social science.DDC classification:

300.1 22

LOC classification:

H61.15 D45 2005

Contents:

Introduction : challenges for social science -- 1. Positivism, science and the politics of knowledge -- 2. Hermeneutics and interpretation : the search for meaning -- 3. The dialectical imagination : Marxism, critique and emancipation -- 4. Communication and pragmatism : Habermas, Apel and the renewal of critical social science -- 5. Deconstructionism and postmodernism : implications of the cultural turn -- 6. Return of the actor : the reflexive turn and feminist standpoint epistemology -- 7. Constructivism and realism -- 8. Social science and public discourse.

Review: "This concise and accessible book provides a critical discussion and comprehensive overview of the major philosophical debates on the methodological foundations of the social sciences. From its origins in the sixteenth century, when a new system of knowledge was created around the idea of modernity, the author shows how the philosophy of social science developed as a reflection on some of the central questions in modernity. From the positivist dispute on explanation versus understanding, to controversies about standpoint through to debates about constructivism and realism, Delanty outlines the major shifts in the philosophy of social science. He argues that social science is an intellectual framework for the transformation of the social world."--BOOK JACKET.

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Previous edition: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This concise and accessible book provides a critical discussion and comprehensive overview of the major philosophical debates on the methodological foundations of the social sciences. From its origins in the sixteenth century, when a new system of knowledge was created around the idea of modernity, the author shows how the philosophy of social science developed as a reflection on some of the central questions in modernity. From the positivist dispute on explanation versus understanding, to controversies about standpoint through to debates about constructivism and realism, Delanty outlines the major shifts in the philosophy of social science. He argues that social science is an intellectual framework for the transformation of the social world."--BOOK JACKET.

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