Realism and Social Science

by Andrew Sayer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761961240
• ISBN13: 9780761961246
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"