Beyond relativism : Raymond Boudon, cognitive rationality and critical realism
Cynthia Lins Hamlin
Bok Engelsk 2002 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | London : Routledge , c2002
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| Omfang | X, 154 s.
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The action paradigm: bringing the agent back in; Linking structure and agency in Boudon's substantive analyses; Beyond Homo sociologicus and Homo economicus: a complex theory of rationality; Understanding, explanation and objectivity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - 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
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| Emner | Boudon, Raymond : (NO-TrBIB)90111038
Cognition and culture. Cultural relativism. Social perception. Vis mer... Social psychology.
Social Change Social Sciences Sociology & Social History relativisme sosial interaksjon kulturell psykologi |
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| ISBN | 0415258510. - 9780415258517. - 9780415523998
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