Social Theory as Science

✍ Scribed by Russell Keat, John Urry

Publisher: Law Book Co of Australasia
Year: 1975
Tongue: English
Leaves: 216
Series: International Library of Society; Routledge Revivals
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The second edition of this popular text includes discussions of the problems of meaning and understanding; the relationship of realism to positivism, empiricism and Marxism; and the place of empirical research in a realist social theory.

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