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Sayer, R. Andrew; Sayer, Andrew

 
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Synopsis

Realism and Social Science

offers the reader an authoritative and compelling guide to critical realism and its implications for social theory and for the practice of social science. It offers an alternative both to approaches which are overly confident about the possibility of a successful social science and those which are defeatist about any possibility of progress in understanding the social world. Written by one of the leading social theorists in the field, it demonstrates the virtues of critical realism for theory and empirical research in social science, and provides a critical engagement with leading non-realist approaches.

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À propos de l'auteur

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

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other traditions in social science. It criticizes reductionism and determinism in "modernist" social science, along with postmodernism, anti-essentialism and constructionism.

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