Full Description
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.
Contents
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