Realism and Sociology: Anti-Foundationalism, Ontology and Social Research (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism)

by JustinCruickshank (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $57.36

  Methodological debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on issues relating to epistemology. This book charts a ground between postmodernism and positivism. It argues that realism can combine a definition of social reality with an anti-foundational approach to knowledge. It develops the realist anti-foundationalism.