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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... Science Positivism in the Social Sciences Postempiricism and the Rise of Antifoundationalism Postempiricist Alternatives The Critical Realist Theory of Science Conclusion: Rethinking Reason PART II: CRITICAL THEORY AS A RESEARCH.
... Science Positivism in the Social Sciences Postempiricism and the Rise of Antifoundationalism Postempiricist Alternatives The Critical Realist Theory of Science Conclusion: Rethinking Reason PART II: CRITICAL THEORY AS A RESEARCH.
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... social theory and methodology addressed to an interdisciplinary social scientific audience. Second, it is oriented ... science methodology, it more likely will be used to give the teaching of social theory a more methodological focus ...
... social theory and methodology addressed to an interdisciplinary social scientific audience. Second, it is oriented ... science methodology, it more likely will be used to give the teaching of social theory a more methodological focus ...
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... science–est surtout de la sociologie– contre sa formation autant qu'avec sa formation. (Bourdieu 1982, p. 9) Why Social Science? The social sciences have played a central part in the formation of modern, liberal democratic societies ...
... science–est surtout de la sociologie– contre sa formation autant qu'avec sa formation. (Bourdieu 1982, p. 9) Why Social Science? The social sciences have played a central part in the formation of modern, liberal democratic societies ...
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... studies; economics and political science, which focus on particular institutional spheres; psychology, which ranges from biology to questions of social psychology shared by all of the social sciences; and geography, which analyzes the ...
... studies; economics and political science, which focus on particular institutional spheres; psychology, which ranges from biology to questions of social psychology shared by all of the social sciences; and geography, which analyzes the ...
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... social theory. Although we seek to avoid the dogmatic presumption that any one approach (namely the one we are explicating and defending) should dominate or replace all of the others, we will try to make the case for social science as ...
... social theory. Although we seek to avoid the dogmatic presumption that any one approach (namely the one we are explicating and defending) should dominate or replace all of the others, we will try to make the case for social science as ...
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 |
Critical Theory and Methodology Raymond A. Morrow,Raymond Allen Morrow,David D. Brown Snippet view - 1994 |
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