Philosophy & Methodology of the Social Sciences: Reinventing the social sciences: towards a postdisciplinary futureCovers the traditional literature on the philosophy of the social sciences and the contemporary philosophical and methodological debates developing at the heart of the disciplinary and interdisciplinary groups in the social sciences. It addresses the needs of researchers and academics who are grappling with the relationship between questions of knowledge construction and the problems of social scientific method. |
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Contents
The Debate from Varieties of Relativism | 3 |
Structuralism PostStructuralism and the Production | 27 |
Societies Roy Bhaskar | 61 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Philosophy & Methodology of the Social Sciences: Reinventing the social sciences: towards a postdisciplinary future Volume 4 of Philosophy & Methodology of the Social Sciences, Mark J. Smith |
| Editor | Mark J. Smith |
| Publisher | SAGE, 2005 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Jul 31, 2008 |
| ISBN | 076194737X, 9780761947370 |
| Length | 440 pages |
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