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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... Positivism and Empiricism Why the Critique of Positivism? Positivist Philosophies of Science Positivism in the Social Sciences Postempiricism and the Rise of Antifoundationalism Postempiricist Alternatives The Critical Realist Theory of ...
... Positivism and Empiricism Why the Critique of Positivism? Positivist Philosophies of Science Positivism in the Social Sciences Postempiricism and the Rise of Antifoundationalism Postempiricist Alternatives The Critical Realist Theory of ...
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... positivist researchers have claimed with considerable justification that empirical findings may involve criticism of existing understandings of social reality. If we follow the convention of identifying the term critical theory as a ...
... positivist researchers have claimed with considerable justification that empirical findings may involve criticism of existing understandings of social reality. If we follow the convention of identifying the term critical theory as a ...
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... positivist terms. Marxists, of course, often have been tempted by reducing Marx to his economic theory and its roots in positivist economics, but this is not usually the Marx who informs contemporary social theory. Weber's explicit ...
... positivist terms. Marxists, of course, often have been tempted by reducing Marx to his economic theory and its roots in positivist economics, but this is not usually the Marx who informs contemporary social theory. Weber's explicit ...
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... positivist method and founding father of “empirical methods” in his quantitative analysis of suicide. 2 In this context ... positivism.” Instead Critical Theory proposed that an alternative conception of social science was required, one ...
... positivist method and founding father of “empirical methods” in his quantitative analysis of suicide. 2 In this context ... positivism.” Instead Critical Theory proposed that an alternative conception of social science was required, one ...
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... positivists who claim it is antiscientific, on the one hand, and the postmodernists who declare its scientific and rationalistic aspirations an Enlightenment illusion on the other ... positivism, especially on the part of critical theories.
... positivists who claim it is antiscientific, on the one hand, and the postmodernists who declare its scientific and rationalistic aspirations an Enlightenment illusion on the other ... positivism, especially on the part of critical theories.
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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