UID:
edocfu_9959237782802883
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 381 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-5063-2094-5
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1-4522-4369-7
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0-8039-4682-1
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1-4522-5403-6
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0-585-28256-0
Series Statement:
Contemporary social theory ; 3
Content:
Raymond Morrow's book traces the history and outlines the major tenets of critical theory for an undergraduate audience. He exemplifies the theory through an analysis of two leading social theorists: Jurgen Habermas and Anthony Giddens. Specific to this volume is the emphasis on the link between critical theory and empirical research and social science methodology, often thought to be incompatible.
Note:
Cover Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part I: Metatheory: Grounding Method; 1. Introduction: What Is Critical Theory?; Why Social Science?; Critical Theory as a Human Science; The Origins of Critical Theory; Contemporary Critical Theory; Critical Theory Now; Critiques of Critical Theory; An Agenda; 2. Foundations of Metatheory: Between Subjectivism and Objectivism; Approaching Methodology; Orienting Definitions; Basic Concepts of Metatheory; The Subjectivist-Objectivist Polarization in Metatheory; Three Approaches to Metatheory and Methodology; Conclusion
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3. Postempiricist Critiques of Positivism and Empiricism; Why the Critique of Positivism?; Positivist Philosophies of Science; Positivism in the Social Sciences; Postempiricism and the Rise of Antifoundationalism; Postempiricist Alternatives; The Critical Realist Theory of Science; Conclusion: Rethinking Reason; Part II: Critical Theory as a Research Program; 4. Early Critical Theory as a Research Program: A Historical Introduction; From Western Marxism to Critical Theory; The Hermeneutic-Dialectical Tradition; Interdisciplinary Materialism as a Research Program
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An Emergent Alternative Research Program; The Decline of a Research Program: The Dialectic of Enlightenment; Conclusion: Beyond the Crisis; 5. Postempiricist Metatheory and the Human Sciences: Interim Developments; The Weberian Challenge; Action Theories; The (Post)Structuralist Revolution(s); French Social Theory; Critical Realism and the Social Sciences; Conclusion; 6. The Metatheory of Critical Theory: Beyond Objectivism and Relativism; Rethinking Critical Theory; Knowledge Interests: Quasi Transcendentalism; Theory of Communicative Action: Reconstructive Sciences
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Transcending the Subject-Object Split; Conclusion; 7. Contemporary Critical Theory as a Research Program: Giddens and Habermas; Weak and Strong Research Programs for Critical Theory; Giddens: A Critique of Historical Materialism; Habermas: A Reconstruction of Historical Materialism; Complementary Critical Research Traditions; Conclusion; Part III: Critical Theory and Empirical Research; 8. Deconstructing the Conventional Discourse of Methodology: Quantitative Versus Qualitative Methods; The Conventional Methods Discourse; Critique of the Discourse; Disciplinary Interests and Two Research Logics
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A Taxonomy of Social Research Strategies; The Investigative Concerns of Critical Theory; Conclusion; 9. Non-Empirical Methods: Reflexive Procedures; Logic as Rhetoric; Positivist Research and Non-Empirical Methods; Critical Theory and Non-Empirical Methods; Is There a Dialectical Method?; Conclusion; 10. Empirical Procedures in Critical Research; Explanation and Interpretation in Social Science; Intensive Research Designs; Narrative and Discourse Analysis; Conclusion; 11. Contexts of Critical Empirical Research; State and Economy; Cultural Theory; Social Psychology; Conclusion; 2. Critical Social Science and Society: Theory and Practice
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-41581-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8039-4683-X
Language:
English
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