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Hollis, Martin.
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300.1 22
Publication Date
1994
Summary
This textbook by Martin Hollis offers an exceptionally clear and concise introduction to the philosophy of social science. It examines questions which give rise to fundamental philosophical issues. Are social structures better conceived of as systems of laws and forces, or as webs of meanings and practices? Is social action better viewed as rational behaviour, or as self-expression? By exploring such questions, the reader is led to reflect upon the nature of scientific method in social science. Is the aim to explain the social world after a manner worked out for the natural world, or to understand the social world from within? This new interdisciplinary textbook by Martin Hollis offers an exceptionally clear and concise introduction to the philosophy of social science. It unearths central philosophical problems underlying the standard ways of thinking about social institutions and social actions, leading the reader to reflect upon the nature of scientific method itself. Is the aim to explain the social world after the manner of the natural world, or to understand it from within? Writing in his characteristically clear and incisive prose, Martin Hollis reveals the crucial role to be played by philosophy in the study of the social sciences.
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114682.3047
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Kukla, André, 1942-
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501 21
Publication Date
2000
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Social constructionists maintain that we invent the properties of the world rather than discover them. Is reality constructed by our own activity? Do we collectively invent the world rather than discover it?André Kukla presents a comprehensive discussion of the philosophical issues that arise out of this debate, analysing the various strengths and weaknesses of a range of constructivist arguments and arguing that current philosophical objections to constructivism are inconclusive. However, Kukla offers and develops new objections to constructivism, distinguishing between the social causes.
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Kukla, André, 1942-
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501 21
Publication Date
2000
Summary
Social constructionists maintain that we invent the properties of the world rather than discover them. Is reality constructed by our own activity? Do we collectively invent the world rather than discover it?André Kukla presents a comprehensive discussion of the philosophical issues that arise out of this debate, analysing the various strengths and weaknesses of a range of constructivist arguments and arguing that current philosophical objections to constructivism are inconclusive. However, Kukla offers and develops new objections to constructivism, distinguishing between the social causes.
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114676.2031
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Tuomela, Raimo.
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302.35 21
Publication Date
2002
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Raimo Tuomela shows how social practices (for example customs and traditions) are 'building blocks of society', and he offers a clear and powerful account of the way in which social institutions are constructed from these building blocks as established, interconnected sets of social practices with a special new social status.
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109798.4297
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Lăzăroiu, George.
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302.23 23
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2012
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105491.5313
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Elliott, Brian, 1969-
Call Number
307.76 22
Publication Date
2010
Summary
Constructing Community examines community from the particular perspective of the shaping and control of urban space in contemporary liberal democracies. Following a consideration and critique of influential theories of community that have arisen within European philosophy over the last three decades, Brian Elliott investigates parallel approaches to community within urban theory and practice over the same period. Underlying the comparison of political theory and urban practice is a basic assumptionthat community and place are intimately connected such that the one cannot be adequately understo.
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105488.2969
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Williams, Malcolm, 1953- author.
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300.72 20
Publication Date
1996
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An introduction to the philosophy of social research which relates philosophical ideas to actual research practice. The book makes use of illustrations from the UK, US and Europe to examine specific problems and broader issues.
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105485.5156
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Holmes, Oliver W., 1938-
Call Number
901
Publication Date
1975
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101649.2031
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Ward, James F., 1947-
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300.1 19
Publication Date
1984
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98205.4141
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Deranty, Jean-Philippe.
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300.1 22
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2009
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McLaughlin, Peter.
Call Number
570.1 21
Publication Date
2001
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Skinner, Quentin.
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300.1 20
Publication Date
1990
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