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Realism and Sociology: Anti-Foundationalism, Ontology and Social Research: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

Autor Justin Cruickshank
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 ian 2007
In recent years, methodological debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on issues relating to epistemology. Realism and Sociology makes an original contribution to the debate, charting a middle ground between postmodernism and positivism.
Critics often hold that realism tries to assume some definitive account of reality. Against this it is argued throughout the book that realism can combine a strong definition of social reality with an anti-foundational approach to knowledge. The position of realist anti-foundationalism that is argued for is developed and defended via the use of immanent critiques. These deal primarily with post-Wittgensteinian positions that seek to define knowledge and social reality in terms of 'rule-following practices' within different 'forms of life' and 'language games'. Specifically, the argument engages with Rorty's neo-pragmatism and the structuration theory of Giddens. The philosophy of Popper is also drawn upon in a critically appreciative way.
While the positions of Rorty and Giddens seek to deflate the claims of 'grand theory', albeit in different ways, they both end up with definitive claims about knowledge and reality that preclude social research. By avoiding the general deflationary approach that relies on reference to 'practices', realism is able to combine a strong social ontology with an anti-foundational epistemology, and thus act as an underlabourer for empirical research.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415436854
ISBN-10: 0415436850
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Professional

Cuprins

1. The Philosophical Logic of Immediacy: the Epistemic Fallacy and the Genetic Fallacy 2. The Influence 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

Notă biografică

Justin Cruickshank is a lecturer in Methodology and the Philosophy of Social Science in the Nottingham Graduate School for Social Research, at Nottingham Trent University. He is the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Critical Realism.

Descriere

In recent years, methodology debates in the social sciences have increasingly focussed on issues relating to epistemology. Realism and Sociology makes an original contribution to the debate.