Beyond Relativism: Raymond Boudon, Cognitive Rationality and Critical Realism (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism) - Hardcover

Hamlin, Cynthia Lins

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415258510 ISBN 13: 9780415258517

Verlag: Routledge, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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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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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415258510
• ISBN 13: 9780415258517
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 166
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Routledge; https://www.routledge-ny.com/; ; Stockst?dter Str. 20; Gro?ostheim; Bayern; Deutschland