Critical Realism and the Social Sciences brings together contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, all of whom engage with tenets of critical realism, juxtaposing them with traditional representations of social scientific enquiry.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-346) and index
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- 300.1
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- 22
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781442684232 9780802092151
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- H61.15
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- C75 2007eb
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- 1 electronic text (xxii, 349 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Foreword 10
- Acknowledgements 22
- Contributors 24
- 1 Critical Realism and the Social Sciences: Methodological and Epistemological Preliminaries 28
- 2 Bhaskar’s Critical Realism: An Appreciative Introduction and a Friendly Critique 55
- 3 For Realism and Anti-Realism 89
- 4 Critical Realism and God 99
- 5 Rescuing Reflexivity: From Solipsism to Realism 122
- 6 More than Straw Figures in Straw Houses: Toward a Revaluation of Critical Realism’s Conception of Post-structuralist Theory 142
- 7 Thinking across the Culture/Nature Divide: An Empirical Study of Issues for Critical Realism and Social Constructionism 167
- 8 Beyond Cognitive Critiques: Getting Real about Politics 187
- 9 Objectivity and Marxian Political Economy 204
- 10 Why Is This Labour Value? Commodity-Producing Labour as a Social Kind 227
- 11 The Relation between Marxism and Critical Realism 249
- 12 Understanding Why Anything Matters: Needy Beings, Flourishing, and Suffering 265
- 13 The Expulsion of Foucault from Governmentality Studies: Toward an Archaeological-Realist Retrieval 283
- 14 From Foucault’s Genealogy to Aleatory Materialism: Realism, Nominalism, and Politics 298
- 15 Gadamer’s Minimal Realism 321
- Bibliography 342
- Index 372
- A 372
- B 372
- C 372
- D 372
- E 373
- F 373
- G 373
- H 373
- J 373
- K 373
- L 373
- M 373
- N 373
- O 373
- P 373
- Q 373
- R 373
- S 373
- T 374
- U 374
- V 374
- W 374
- Z 374
