Philosophies of social science : the classic and contemporary readings / edited by Gerard Delanty and Piet Strydom.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

[PART 1 Positivism, its dissolution and the emergence of post-empiricism] EMILE DURKHEIM / What is a social fact? (1895) -- OTTO NEURATH / The scientific world conception (1929) -- CARL G. HEMPEL / Concept and theory in social science (1952)-- ERNST NAGEL / Methodological problems of the social sciences (1961) -- KARL POPPER / The problem of induction (1934) -- RUDOLF CARNAP / Confirmation, testing and meaning (1936) -- TALCOTT PARSONS / Theory and empirical fact (1937) -- A.J. AYER / The characterization of sense-data (1940) -- W.V.O. QUINE / Two dogmas of empiricism (1951) -- LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN / Language games and meaning (1953) -- STEPHEN TOULMIN / The evolution of scientific ideas (1961) -- THOMAS KUHN / A role for history (1962) -- IMRE LAKATOS / Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes (1970) -- PAUL FEYERABEND / Against method (1975).

[PART 2 The interpretative tradition] WILHELM DILTHEY / The development of hermeneutics (1900) -- GEORG SIMMEL / On the nature of historical understanding (1918) How is society possible? (1908) -- MAX WEBER / `Objectivity? in social science (1904) -- SIGMUND FREUD / The dream-work (1900) A philosophy of life (1932) -- ERNST CASSIRER / From a critique of abstraction to relationalism (1910) -- KARL MANNHEIM / Competition as a cultural phenomenon (1929) -- ALFRED SCHUTZ / Concept and theory formation in the social sciences (1954) -- MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY / The philosopher and sociology (1960) -- MARTIN HEIDEGGER / The age of the world picture (1938) -- PETER WINCH / Philosophy and science (1958) -- HANS-GEORG GADAMER / Hermeneutical understanding (1960) -- JURGEN HABERMAS / The hermeneutic claim to universality (1973) -- PAUL RICOEUR / Towards a critical hermeneutic: hermeneutics and the critique of ideology (1973) -- CHARLES TAYLOR / Interpretation and the sciences of man (1971) -- CLIFFORD GEERTZ / The thick description of culture (1973) -- AARON CICOUREL / Method and measurement (1964) -- HAROLD GARFINKEL / Rational properties of scientific and common-sense activities (1960) -- ERVING GOFFMAN / Primary frameworks (1974).

[PART 3The critical tradition] MAX HORKHEIMER / Traditional and critical theory (1937) -- HERBERT MARCUSE / Philosophy and critical theory (1937) -- THEODOR W. ADORNO / Sociology and empirical research (1969) -- JURGEN HABERMAS / Knowledge and human interests (1965) The tasks of a critical theory (1981) -- KARL-OTTO APEL / Types of social science in light of human cognitive interests (1977) -- ALBRECHT WELLMER / Critical theory of society (1969) -- ROBERTO MANGABEIRA UNGER / The critical argument (1975) -- ALVIN GOULDNER / Towards a refiexive sociology (1970).

[PART 4 Pragmatism, semiotics and transcendental pragmatics] CHARLES S. PEIRCE / A definition of pragmatic and pragmatism (1902) -- JOHN DEWEY / Social inquiry (1938) -- CHARLES MORRIS / Foundations of the theory of signs (1938) Pragmatics and semantics (1946) -- C. WRIGHT MILLS / Situated actions and vocabularies of motive (1940) -- KARL-OTTO APEL / Transcendental pragmatics (1979).

[PART 5 The structuralist controversy: language, discouse and practice] CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS / Structural analysis in linguistics and in anthropology (1958) Language and the analysis of social laws (1951) -- LUCIEN GOLDMANN / The human sciences and philosophy (1966) -- MICHEL FOUCAULT / The order of things (1966) Power/knowledge (1976) -- JACQUES DERRIDA / Structure, sign and play in the discourses of the human sciences (1966) -- PIERRE BOURDIEU / The logic of practice (1980).

[PART 6 New directions and challenges] RICHARD J. BERNSTEIN / `Anti-foundationalism? (1991) -- PIERRE BOURDIEU / Radical doubt (1992) On science and politics (1999) -- ANTHONY GIDDENS / Social science as a double hermeneutic (1984) -- DOROTHY SMITH / The standpoint of women in the everyday world (1987) -- DONNA HARAWAY / Situated knowledges: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective (1988) -- PATRICIA HILL COLLINS / The sociological significance of black feminist thought (1986) -- KARIN KNORR-CETINA / Strong constructivism (1993) -- IAN HACKING / What is social construction? The teenage pregnancy example (2002) -- STEVE FULLER / The project of social epistemology and the elusive problem of knowledge in contemporary society (2002) -- NIKLAS LUHMANN / The cognitive program of constructivism and a reality that remains unknown (1990) -- ROY BHASKAR / Transcendental realism and the problem of naturalism (1979) -- JON ELSTER / Rational choice and the explanation of social action (2001) -- RANDALL COLLINS / Sociological realism (1998) -- JURGEN HABERMAS / Realism after the linguistic-pragmatic turn (1999).

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