Explaining Society

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-22183-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 367 g

Reihe: Critical Realism: Interventions

This book will be immensely valuable for students and researchers in social science, sociology and philosophy in that it connects methodology, theory and empirical research. It provides an innovative picture of what society and social science is, along with the methods used to study and explain social phenomena.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Danermark, Berth

Ekstrom, Mats

Jakobsen, Liselotte

Karlsson, Jan ch.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bhaskar, Roy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Science, Reality and Concepts 3. Conceptual Abstraction and Causality 4. Generalization, Scientific Inference and Models for Explanatory Social Science 5. Theory in the Methodology of Social Science 6. Critical Methodological Pluralism 7. Social Science and Practice 8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Berth Danermark is Professor of Sociology in the department of Social Science, and of Caring Sciences, University of Örebro, Sweden. Mats Ekström is Professor in Sociology in the Communication and Media Studies department, University of Örebro, Sweden. Liselotte Jakobsen is Senior Researcher at Karlstad University. Jan Ch. Karlsson is Professor of Sociology, in Working Life Science, Karlstad University.