Social science : philosophical and methodological foundations

Delanty, Gerard

Social science : philosophical and methodological foundations - Second edition - x, 197 pages - Concepts in the social sciences .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [174]-178) and index.

Introduction : challenges for social science Positivism, science and the politics of knowledge Hermeneutics and interpretation : the search for meaning The dialectical imagination : Marxism, critique and emancipation Communication and pragmatism : Habermas, Apel and the renewal of critical social science Deconstructionism and postmodernism : implications of the cultural turn Return of the actor : the reflexive turn and feminist standpoint epistemology Constructivism and realism Social science and public discourse

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