poverty of relativism
By: Raymond Boudon.
Contributors: Hamilton, Peter, 1947-
Series: GEMAS studies in social analysis
Publisher: Bardwell Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Social sciences -- Philosophy.; Relativity.
Notes: "Introduction, Chapters 2, 5 and 6 translated by Peter Hamilton."-- Verso of t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-197).

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: value: Preface / Mohamed Cherkaoui & Peter Hamilton; value: Foreword / Bryan S. Turner; value: The social sciences : an intellectual source of Western moral pessimism; value: The social sciences and the two types of relativism; value: The polytheism of values; value: Basic mechanisms of moral evolution :  in the footsteps of Durkeim and Weber; value: Explaining axiological feelings; value: The objectivity of artistic values; value: An archaelogy of the modern concept of common sense.