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1. Realism and Sociology

   Anti-Foundationalism, Ontology and Social Research

   By Justin Cruickshank

   In recent years, methodological debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on issues relating to epistemology. Realism and Sociology makes an original contribution to the debate, charting a middle ground between postmodernism and positivism.Critics often hold that realism tries to...

   Published January 23rd 2007 by Routledge
2. Critical Realism

   The Difference it Makes

   Edited by Justin Cruickshank

   This book introduces social scientists to the difference that critical realism can make to theorising and methodological problems within the contemporary social sciences. The chapters, which cover such topics as cultural studies, feminism, globalization, heterodox economics, education policy, the...

   Published January 23rd 2007 by Routledge