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The philosophy of social science
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ISBN: 0521447801 0521442648 9780521447805 9780521442640 9780511618154 1316098729 1107157110 0511618158 1139079077 113906875X 1139081349 1139076795 9781139076791 Year: 1994 Publisher: Cambridge [England] New York, NY, USA

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This textbook by Martin Hollis offers an exceptionally clear and concise introduction to the philosophy of social science. It examines questions which give rise to fundamental philosophical issues. Are social structures better conceived of as systems of laws and forces, or as webs of meanings and practices? Is social action better viewed as rational behaviour, or as self-expression? By exploring such questions, the reader is led to reflect upon the nature of scientific method in social science. Is the aim to explain the social world after a manner worked out for the natural world, or to understand the social world from within?

The constitution of society : outline of the theory of structuration
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ISBN: 0745600077 0745600069 9780745600079 9780745600062 Year: 1986 Publisher: Cambridge : Oxford : Polity Press, Basil Blackwell,

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Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form. A particular feature is Giddensa s concern to connect abstract problems of theory to an interpretation of the nature of empirical method in the social sciences. In presenting his own ideas, Giddens mounts a critical attack on some of the more orthodox sociological views. The Constitution of Society is an invaluable reference book for all those concerned with the basic issues in contemporary social theory.

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