Title Realism and sociology : anti-foundationalism, ontology, and social research / Justin Cruickshank.

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Description	1 online resource (x, 173 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Routledge studies in critical realism ; 5
	Routledge studies in critical realism ; 5.
Note	"First published 2003 by Routledge"--Title page verso.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-168) and index.
Contents	1. The philosophical logic of immediacy : the epistemic fallacy and the genetic fallacy -- 2. The in£uence of empiricism on social ontology : methodological individualism and methodological collectivism -- 3. Post-Wittgensteinian pragmatism : Rorty, anti-representationalism and politics -- 4. Post-Wittgensteinian sociology : Giddens' ontology of practices -- 5. Social realism : overcoming the sociological logic of immediacy -- 6. Social realism and the study of chronic unemployment.
Summary	In recent years, methodology debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on issues relating to epistemology. Realism and Sociology makes an original contribution to the debate.
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Subject	Sociology -- Methodology.
	Sociology -- Methodology.
	Sociology -- Philosophy.
	Sociology -- Philosophy.
	Realism.
	Realism.
	Ontology.
	Ontology.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Cruickshank, Justin, 1969- Realism and sociology. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003 020316394X
ISBN	0203116704 (electronic book)
	9780203116708 (electronic book)
	0415261902 (Cloth)