Humanist Realism for Sociologists

ISBN-13: 9780367876982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str.

Terry Leahy

Opis

A must-have tool for understanding how value perspectives cannot be eliminated from the social sciences, this book is essential for undergraduates, postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers interested in the fields of sociology, anthropology, women’s studies, social work, human geography, political philosophy and ecology.

Spis treści

Preface: Meta-Theory for the Social Sciences  Chapter One: Humanism and its Critics  Chapter Two: Knowledge in the Social Sciences  Chapter Three: Debates about Epistemology in Recent Social Science  Chapter Four: Explanation in the Social Sciences  Chapter Five: What Do Social Scientist Do in Their Accounts?  Chapter Six: Values, Ethics and the Social Sciences  Chapter Seven: Two Examples of Humanist Ethics  Chapter Eight: Ethics for Social Scientists Today  Chapter Nine: Inequality, Exploitation and Gender  Chapter Ten: Social Class  Chapter Eleven: Bourdieu and Humanist Realism

O autorze

Dr Terry Leahy is a sociologist from the University of Newcastle, Australia.