Beyond Relativism

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-25851-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 384 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamlin, Cynthia Lins

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Intelligenz, Denken, Problemlösen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Action Paradigm: Bringing the Agent Back In 2. Linking Structure and Agency in Boudon's Substantive Analyses 3. Beyond Homo Sociologicus and Homo Oeconomicus: a Complex Theory of Rationality 4. Understanding, Explanation and Objectivity 5. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Cynthia Lins Hamlin is a lecturer in social theory at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. She is currently the editor of the Brazilian journal Estudos de Sociologica