| Description |
883 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Handbook of the philosophy of science |
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Handbook of the philosophy of science.
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| Contents |
Defining a discipline : sociology and its philosophical problems, from its classics to 1945 / Stephen P. Turner -- Measurement / Joel Michell -- The intersection of philosophy and theory construction : the problem of the origin of elements in a theory / Jerald Hage -- Causal models in the social sciences / James Woodward -- Functional explanation and evolutionary social science / Harold Kincaid -- Evolutionary explanations / Valerie A. Haines -- Holism and supervenience / Julie Zahle -- Levels of the social / Daniel Little -- Rational choice / Alessandro Pizzorno -- Ethnography and culture / Mark Risjord -- Categories and classification in the social sciences / Warren Schmaus -- Hermeneutic and phenomenological approaches / William Outhwaite -- The origins of ethnomethodology / Michael Lynch -- Philosophy of archaeology; philosophy in archaeology / Alison Wylie -- Relativism and historicism / Ian Jarvie -- The problem of apparently irrational beliefs / Steven Lukes -- Language and translation / David Henderson -- Practice theory / Joseph Rouse -- Naturalism without fears / Paul Roth -- We, heirs of englightenment : critical theory, democracy, and social science / James Bohman -- Race in the social sciences / Michael Root -- Feminist anthropology and sociology : issues for social science / Sharon Crasnow -- What's 'new' in the sociology of knowledge? / John Zammito |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- Philosophy.
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Sociology -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Risjord, Mark W., 1960-
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Turner, Stephen P., 1951-
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| LC no. |
2006050853 |
| ISBN |
0444515429 (alk. paper) |
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9780444515421 (alk. paper) |
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