TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sayer,R.Andrew
TI  - Realism and social science
SN  - 0761961232
AV  - H62 .S3383 2000
U1  - 300.72 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PB  - Sage
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Research
KW  - Critical realism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-199) and index; Part One; INTRODUCING CRITICAL REALISMIntroduction --; Key Features of Critical Realism in Practice A Brief Introduction --; Part Two; POSTMODERN-REALIST ENCOUNTERSIntroduction --; Realism for Sceptics --; Postmodernism and the Three 'Po --; Mo' Flips --; Essentialism, Social Constructionism and Beyond --; Part Three; Social Science and Space --; Introduction --; Space and Social Theory --; Geohistorical Explanation and Problems of Narrative --; Part Four; 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
ER  -