Sayer, R. Andrew,

Realism and social science / Andrew Sayer. - 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-199) and index.

INTRODUCING CRITICAL REALISMIntroduction -- Key Features of Critical Realism in Practice A Brief Introduction -- POSTMODERN-REALIST ENCOUNTERSIntroduction -- Realism for Sceptics -- Postmodernism and the Three 'Po -- Mo' Flips -- Essentialism, Social Constructionism and Beyond -- Social Science and Space -- Introduction -- Space and Social Theory -- Geohistorical Explanation and Problems of Narrative -- CRITICAL REALISM: FROM CRITIQUE TO NORMATIVE THEORYIntroduction -- Critical Realism and the Limits to Critical Social Science -- Ethics Unbound For a Normative Turn in Social Theory. Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four.

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Social sciences--Research
Critical realism

H62 / .S3383 2000

300.72