Beyond Relativism: Raymond Boudon, Cognitive Rationality and Critical Realism - Brossura

Hamlin, Cynthia Lins Lins

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ISBN 10: 0415523990 ISBN 13: 9780415523998

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Riassunto

This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities. Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that critical realism represents a better safeguard against the relativism which springs from the conflation of social reality and our ideas about it. This is an important book for sociologists and anyone working in the social sciences, and for all those concerned with the methodology, and philosophy, of social science.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Cynthia Lins Hamlin is a lecturer in social theory at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. She is currently the editor of the Brazilian journal Estudos de Sociologica

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415523990
• ISBN 13: 9780415523998
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 168
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania