Realism and sociology
Subtitle: anti-foundationalism, ontology, and social research
By: Justin Cruickshank
Series: Routledge studies in critical realism -- 5; Routledge studies in critical realism -- 5.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9780203116708
Subjects: Regional Studies; Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Philosophy; General; Anthropology; Methodology; Ontology; Realism
Notes: "First published 2003 by Routledge"--T.p. verso.

"This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-168) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: 1. The philosophical logic of immediacy : the epistemic fallacy and the genetic fallacy; title: 2. The in£uence of empiricism on social ontology : methodological individualism and methodological collectivism; title: 3. Post-Wittgensteinian pragmatism : Rorty, anti-representationalism and politics; title: 4. Post-Wittgensteinian sociology : Giddens' ontology of practices; title: 5. Social realism : overcoming the sociological logic of immediacy; title: 6. Social realism and the study of chronic unemployment.