| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 246 pages). |
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| Series |
Routledge studies in critical realism ; 6
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Routledge studies in critical realism ; 6.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; The self: method and ethics; The private life of the social agent: what difference does it make?; Are critical realist ethics foundationalist?; Social science and critique after the linguistic turn; Feminism, critical realism and the linguistic turn; Critical realism: the difference it makes, in theory; Critical realism and scientific method in Chomsky's linguistics; Method, politics and policy; Underlabouring and unemployment: notes for developing a critical realist approach to the agency of the chronically unemployed. |
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New Labour, school effectiveness and ideological COMMITMENTWhat race means to realists; Cultural studies: towards a realist intervention; Political economy and globalism; Naturalism and economics; A critical realist approach to global political economy; Explaining global poverty: a realist critique of the orthodox approach; Index. |
| Summary |
An introduction to the difference that critical realism can make to contemporary social sciences, covering cultural studies, feminism, globalization, heterodox economics, education policy, the self and the 'underclass' debate. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Critical realism.
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Critical realism. |
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Social sciences -- Methodology.
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Social sciences -- Methodology. |
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cruickshank, Justin, 1969-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Critical realism. London : Routledge, 2003 (DLC) 2002036933 |
| ISBN |
0203512308 (electronic book) |
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9780203512302 (electronic book) |
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0203341937 |
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9780203341933 |
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0415305985 (Cloth) |
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