Patrick Baert 
Philosophy of the Social Sciences [PDF ebook] 
Towards Pragmatism

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In this ground-breaking new text, Patrick Baert analyses the
central perspectives in the philosophy of social science,
critically investigating the work of Durkheim, Weber, Popper,
critical realism, critical theory, and Rorty’s neo pragmatism.
* * Places key writers in their social and political contexts,
helping to make their ideas meaningful to students.
* Shows how these authors’ views have practical uses in
empirical research.
* Lively approach that makes complex ideas understandable to
upper-level students, as well as having scholarly appeal.

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Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Chapter 1. Emile Durkheim’s naturalism.
Introduction.
An uneasy relationship with positivism.
How to be a proper sociologist.
Application: the study of suicide.
Evaluation.
Further reading.
Bibliography.
Chapter 2. Max Weber’s interpretative method.
Introduction.
Transcending the Methodenstreit.
Ideal types and different types of action.
Application: the Protestant Ethic.
Evaluation.
Further reading.
Bibliography.
Chapter 3. Karl Popper’s falsificationism.
Introduction.
What science is about.
The controversy with Kuhn.
How to make social science scientific.
The problem with historicism and utopianism.
Methodological individualism.
Evaluation.
Further reading.
Bibliography.
Chapter 4. Critical realism.
The realist bandwagon.
Realism, reality and causality.
Creative scientists at work.
Contributions to social theory.
Application: British politics.
Evaluation.
Further reading.
Bibliography.
Chapter 5. Critical Theory.
Introduction.
The Early Frankfurt School.
Jürgen Habermas.
Further reading.
Bibliography.
Chapter 6. Richard Rorty and Pragmatism.
Introduction.
American pragmatism and Rorty.
The myth of scientific method.
The new left and the cultural left.
Evaluation.
Further reading.
Bibliography.
Chapter 7. A Pragmatist philosophy of the social
sciences.
Outline of a pragmatist view.
Cultural anthropology.
Archaeology.
History and social sciences.
Some concluding remarks.
Notes.
References and Bibliography.
Index

Giới thiệu về tác giả

Patrick Baert is University Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge

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