Reconstructing sociology : the critical realist approach / Douglas V. Porpora.
Porpora, Douglas V.| Call Number | 301 |
| Author | Porpora, Douglas V., author. |
| Title | Reconstructing sociology : the critical realist approach / Douglas V. Porpora. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (ix, 242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Apr 2016). |
| Summary | Critical realism is a philosophy of science that positions itself against the major alternative philosophies underlying contemporary sociology. This book offers a general critique of sociology, particularly sociology in the United States, from a critical realist perspective. It also acts as an introduction to critical realism for students and scholars of sociology. Written in a lively, accessible style, Douglas V. Porpora argues that sociology currently operates with deficient accounts of truth, culture, structure, agency, and causality that are all better served by a critical realist perspective. This approach argues against the alternative sociological perspectives, in particular the dominant positivism which privileges statistical techniques and experimental design over ethnographic and historical approaches. However, the book also compares critical realism favourably with a range of other approaches, including poststructuralism, pragmatism, interpretivism, practice theory, and relational sociology. Numerous sociological examples are included, and each chapter addresses well-known and current work in sociology. |
| Subject | SOCIOLOGY. CRITICAL THEORY. |
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| Summary | Critical realism is a philosophy of science that positions itself against the major alternative philosophies underlying contemporary sociology. This book offers a general critique of sociology, particularly sociology in the United States, from a critical realist perspective. It also acts as an introduction to critical realism for students and scholars of sociology. Written in a lively, accessible style, Douglas V. Porpora argues that sociology currently operates with deficient accounts of truth, culture, structure, agency, and causality that are all better served by a critical realist perspective. This approach argues against the alternative sociological perspectives, in particular the dominant positivism which privileges statistical techniques and experimental design over ethnographic and historical approaches. However, the book also compares critical realism favourably with a range of other approaches, including poststructuralism, pragmatism, interpretivism, practice theory, and relational sociology. Numerous sociological examples are included, and each chapter addresses well-known and current work in sociology. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Apr 2016). |
| Subject | SOCIOLOGY. CRITICAL THEORY. |
| Multimedia |