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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... 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 Program An Emergent ...
... 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 Program An Emergent ...
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... research process itself. Second, it does not provide the kind of close analysis of actual empirical projects that would be appropriate for a somewhat differently conceived project (e.g., Harvey 1990). The immediate task at hand is to ...
... research process itself. Second, it does not provide the kind of close analysis of actual empirical projects that would be appropriate for a somewhat differently conceived project (e.g., Harvey 1990). The immediate task at hand is to ...
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... Research (1993) provides a useful mediation between conventional ... study. But his introduction is developed largely without reference to the metatheoretical ... program of contemporary critical theory. While we would agree that this ...
... Research (1993) provides a useful mediation between conventional ... study. But his introduction is developed largely without reference to the metatheoretical ... program of contemporary critical theory. While we would agree that this ...
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... research program (a paradigm of empirical research) that has influenced a number of disciplines. The term has its origins in the work of a group of German scholars (collectively referred to as the Frankfurt School) in the 1920s who used ...
... research program (a paradigm of empirical research) that has influenced a number of disciplines. The term has its origins in the work of a group of German scholars (collectively referred to as the Frankfurt School) in the 1920s who used ...
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... research program. The Neglect of Methodology and the Empirical Turn We thus seek to address one of the great points of vulnerability of the tradition of critical theory: its relation to empirical methods in the paradoxical context of ...
... research program. The Neglect of Methodology and the Empirical Turn We thus seek to address one of the great points of vulnerability of the tradition of critical theory: its relation to empirical methods in the paradoxical context 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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