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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... CRITICAL THEORY AS A RESEARCH PROGRAM 4. Early Critical Theory as a Research Program: A Historical Introduction From Western Marxism to Critical Theory The HermeneuticDialectical Tradition Interdisciplinary Materialism as a Research ...
... CRITICAL THEORY AS A RESEARCH PROGRAM 4. Early Critical Theory as a Research Program: A Historical Introduction From Western Marxism to Critical Theory The HermeneuticDialectical Tradition Interdisciplinary Materialism as a Research ...
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... critical theory as a research program. Yet the whole project is directed generally toward answering much criticism that has focused on critical theory's problematic relation to empirical research. Further, it responds to the skeptical ...
... critical theory as a research program. Yet the whole project is directed generally toward answering much criticism that has focused on critical theory's problematic relation to empirical research. Further, it responds to the skeptical ...
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... critical theory– along with discourse theory and the concept of ideology–mysteriously disappear (despite references to history and power). We do not find this sanitized approach fully consistent with Giddens' social theory, and would ...
... critical theory– along with discourse theory and the concept of ideology–mysteriously disappear (despite references to history and power). We do not find this sanitized approach fully consistent with Giddens' social theory, and would ...
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Raymond A. Morrow, David D. Brown. 1 INTRODUCTION What Is Critical Theory? The hostility to theory as such which prevails in contemporary public life is really directed against the transformative activity associated with critical ...
Raymond A. Morrow, David D. Brown. 1 INTRODUCTION What Is Critical Theory? The hostility to theory as such which prevails in contemporary public life is really directed against the transformative activity associated with critical ...
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... 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, or simply critical theory ...
... 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, or simply critical theory ...
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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