Realism and Social Science

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Andrew Sayer

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A guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other leading traditions in social science. Andrew Sayer, a social theorist and a founder of "realism" in the social sciences, criticizes reductionism and determinism in "modernist" social science and rejects the postmodern for its overexaggeration of the permeable character of boundaries in social explanation. He provides a guide to the key features of critical realism and criticizes postmodernism, anti-essentialism and constructionism. Finally, the book provides an assessment of the ethical turn in social theory, and its implications.

Author Biography:

Andrew Sayer is Professor of Social Theory and Political Economy at Lancaster University.

Release date Australia

December 29th, 1999

Author

Andrew Sayer

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

224

Dimensions

156x234x11

ISBN-13

9780761961246

Product ID

2453941

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