Critical Theory and MethodologySAGE Publications, 1994 M06 24 - 390 pages Recipient of Choice Magazine′s 1996 Outstanding Academic Book Award Author Raymond Morrow outlines and recounts the development of the major tenets of critical theory, exemplifying them through the works of two of their most influential, recent adherents: Jürgen Habermas and Anthony Giddens. Beginning with a comprehensive yet meticulous explication of critical theory and its history, the author next discusses it within the context of a research program; his work concludes with an examination of empirical methods. Emphasizing the connections between critical theory, empirical research, and social science methodology, Morrow′s volume offers refreshing insights on traditional and current material. |
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... associated with critical thinking. Opposition starts as soon as theorists fail to limit themselves to verification and classification by means of categories as neutral as possible, that is, categories which are indispensable to ...
... associated with critical thinking. Opposition starts as soon as theorists fail to limit themselves to verification and classification by means of categories as neutral as possible, that is, categories which are indispensable to ...
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... associated with the technical innovations, transformations of economic and social life, and urbanization that accompanied the rise of capitalism (Giddens 1982b, pp. 56). Although sociology as a more encompassing discipline is associated ...
... associated with the technical innovations, transformations of economic and social life, and urbanization that accompanied the rise of capitalism (Giddens 1982b, pp. 56). Although sociology as a more encompassing discipline is associated ...
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... associated with fundamental theoretical approaches, not this or that system of abstract concepts associated with the “theory.” The task of this study is to outline the basic features of what has come to be called critical social theory ...
... associated with fundamental theoretical approaches, not this or that system of abstract concepts associated with the “theory.” The task of this study is to outline the basic features of what has come to be called critical social theory ...
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... associated with what Mills called “sociological imagination.” More recently, Anthony Giddens–the leading contemporary British critical theorist–has specified them in terms of “several related forms of sensibility” required for ...
... associated with what Mills called “sociological imagination.” More recently, Anthony Giddens–the leading contemporary British critical theorist–has specified them in terms of “several related forms of sensibility” required for ...
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... associated with the notion of critical social theory. In this initial historical presentation we will be able to provide only a very general sketch. We necessarily take for granted a certain basic familiarity with the history of ...
... associated with the notion of critical social theory. In this initial historical presentation we will be able to provide only a very general sketch. We necessarily take for granted a certain basic familiarity with the history of ...
Contents
Between Subjectivism | |
Postempiricist Critiques of Positivism and Empiricism | |
A Historical | |
Interim | |
Beyond Objectivism | |
Giddens | |
Reflexive Procedures | |
Empirical Procedures in Critical Research | |
Contexts of Critical Empirical Research | |
Theory and Practice | |
About the Authors | |
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Critical Theory and Methodology Raymond A. Morrow,Raymond Allen Morrow,David D. Brown Limited preview - 1994 |
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