TY  - BOOK
AU  - Delanty,Gerard
TI  - Social science: philosophical and methodological foundations 
T2  - Concepts in the social sciences
SN  - 0335217222
AV  - H61.15 D45 2005
U1  - 300.1 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Maidenhead
PB  - Open University Press
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
N1  - Previous edition: 1997; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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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