Beyond Relativism: Raymond Boudon, Cognitive Rationality and Critical Realism
Cynthia Lins Hamlin
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 social science.
年:
2002
出版:
1
出版社:
Routledge
语言:
english
页:
169
ISBN 10:
0415258510
ISBN 13:
9780415258517
文件:
DJVU, 2.35 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2002