Explaining Society

Critical Realism in the Social Sciences

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7104757
AutoresBerth Danermark (0000-0003-2690-6989), Mats Ekström (0000-0001-8004-4975), Jan Ch Karlsson (0000-0002-5473-7417, Örebro University), Liselotte Jakobsen
Año2019
Fecha de publicación2019-03-20
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaExplaining Society (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781351017831
OpenAlexW4242028178
Open LibraryOL51667487M
ISBN9781351017831
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas109

Fully revised, with an updated bibliography and new, relevant illustrative examples based on work inspired by critical realism, this new edition of Explaining Society constitutes an up-to-date resource connecting methodology, theory, and empirical research. Including discussions of more recent scholarship in the field which connects critical realism with interdisciplinary research, this second edition also clarifies concepts – such as retroduction and retrodiction – so as to render them consistent with developments within critical realism, which are covered in a new chapter. An accessible account of the nature of society and social science, together with the methods used to study and explain social phenomena, Explaining Society will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly

Political science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical realism · Methodology · Social sciences