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Realism and Social Science offers the reader an authoritative and compelling guide to critical realism and its implications for social theory and for the practice of social science. It offers an alternative both to approaches which are overly confident about the possibility of a successful social science and those which are defeatist about any possibility of progress in understanding the social world. Written by one of the leading social theorists in the field, it demonstrates the virtues of critical realism for theory and empirical research in social science, and provides a critical engagement with leading non-realist approaches.
Space and Social Theory
Space and Social Theory
For some years there have been calls for a convergence of the interests of history and social science, and critiques of the neglect of time in social theory (for example, Abrams, 1982; Adam, 1990; Bourdieu, 1977; Giddens, 1984). Recently, similar arguments have been made regarding the relationship of social science to geography and the former's neglect of space. Human geographers have insisted that the spatiality of society is not simply an output of social processes but is constitutive of social forms themselves and hence makes a significant difference to the nature of societies (for example, Gregory, 1985; Massey, 1984, 1996; Massey and Allen, 1985; Soja, 1985, 1989; Thrift, 1983, 1997). This kind of argument has been reciprocated in ...
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