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245	0	0	_aCritical realism, history, and philosophy in the social sciences / _cedited by Timothy Rutzou, George Steinmetz.
264		1	_aBingley, U.K. : _bEmerald Publishing Limited, _c2018.
264		4	_c©2018
300			_a1 online resource (xv, 162 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aPolitical Power and Social Theory, _x0198-8719 ; _vv. 34
500			_aIncludes index.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0	0	_tPrelims -- _tCrisis!? What crisis!? On social theory and reflexivity -- _tAfter positivism: critical realism and historical sociology -- _tUses of value judgments in science: a general argument, with lessons from a case study of feminist research on divorce -- _tPrinciples of reconstructive social theory -- _tConjunctures and assemblages: approaches to multicausal explanation in the human sciences -- _tStrange bedfellows? Ontology, normativity, critical realism, and queer theory -- _tIndex.
520			_aSocial science, history, and philosophy have often been neglect in thinking through their fundamentally intertwined relationship. The result is often an inattention to philosophy where social science and history is concerned, or a neglect of historicity and social analysis where philosophy is concerned. Meanwhile, the place of values in research is often uneasily passed over in silence. The inattention to, and loss of, the intersection between these different disciplines and their subject matters, leaves our investigations all the more impoverished as a result. In resolving these problems, it is not enough to strive for cooperation or integration, but to rethink of the nature of the disciplines themselves; their interests, purposes, and presuppositions. In this volume, contributors explore different facets of these relationships, and move beyond the problematics erected by positivism often cast in terms of value-free or value-neutral science, that is, a science obsessed with empirical data, schematic classifications, and the pursuit of law-like forms. While positivism has been subject to critique, the influence and legacy of positivism remains. It remains in the way in which we often think about science; the line drawn between the sciences and the humanities; the norms researchers should follow; what a successful explanation looks like; and the ethical, normative, and political implications of scientific research.Aimed at students and researchers of philosophy, history and the social sciences, this book is driven by a desire to revindicate questions concerning ontology and social ontology, to rethink the nature of explanation, and to resituate normativity and values within scientific, social scientific, and historical pursuits.
588	0		_aPrint version record
650		0	_aPhilosophy and social sciences. _937616
650		0	_aSocial sciences and history. _937617
650		0	_aOntology. _94310
650		7	_aSocial Science _xSociology / Social Theory. _2bisacsh _937618
650		7	_aSocial theory. _2bicssc _937619
700	1		_aRutzou, Timothy, _eeditor. _937620
700	1		_aSteinmetz, George, _d1957- _eeditor. _937621
776			_z9781787566040
830		0	_aPolitical power and social theory ; _vv. 34. _x0198-8719 _937622
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0198-8719201834
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