Critical Theory and MethodologySAGE Publications, 1994 M06 29 - 381 pages Critical Theory traces its roots from Marxism, through the renowned Frankfurt School, to a wide array of national and cultural traditions. Raymond Morrow's book traces the history and outlines the major tenets of critical theory for an undergraduate audience. He exemplifies the theory through an analysis of two leading social theorists: J[um]urgen Habermas and Anthony Giddens. Unique to this volume is the emphasis on the link between Critical Theory and empirical research and social science methodology, often thought to be incompatible. |
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... Ontology Objectivists adhere to an ontology that is broadly associated with the notion of a traditional or " naive " realism that stresses the reality of empirical facts independently of our consciousness of them . Scientific concepts ...
... Ontology Objectivists adhere to an ontology that is broadly associated with the notion of a traditional or " naive " realism that stresses the reality of empirical facts independently of our consciousness of them . Scientific concepts ...
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... ontology . In contrast , subjectivists tend to adopt a position that philoso- phers have called nominalism ( perhaps ... ontological posi- tions result in dramatic differences with respect to epistemol- ogy . In other words , ontologies ...
... ontology . In contrast , subjectivists tend to adopt a position that philoso- phers have called nominalism ( perhaps ... ontological posi- tions result in dramatic differences with respect to epistemol- ogy . In other words , ontologies ...
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... ontology's abstract concern with the nature of being as such , and that of a scientific ontology concern with “ the entities posited or presupposed by some particular substantive scientific theory " ( Outhwaite and Bottomore 1993 , p ...
... ontology's abstract concern with the nature of being as such , and that of a scientific ontology concern with “ the entities posited or presupposed by some particular substantive scientific theory " ( Outhwaite and Bottomore 1993 , p ...
Contents
What Is Critical Theory? | 5 |
Postempiricist Critiques of Positivism | 62 |
Positivism in the Social Sciences | 69 |
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Critical Theory and Methodology Raymond A. Morrow,Raymond Allen Morrow,David D. Brown Limited preview - 1994 |
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