"This comprehensive and authoritative statement of fundamental principles of sociological analysis integrates approaches that are often seen as mutually exclusive. John Scott argues that theorising in sociology and other social sciences is characterised by the application of eig…
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All social scientists learn the celebrated theories and frameworks of their predecessors, using them to inform their own research and observations. But before there can be theory, there must be theorizing. This title introduces the reader to the next generation of theory constru…
"This book aims to open a discussion on the weakening of the production of theory in left-wing thought since the 1970s, based on Louis Althusser's ideas of overdetermination, plural temporality, conjuncture, and theoretical practice"--
"This book aims to open a discussion on the weakening of the production of theory in left-wing thought since the 1970s, based on Louis Althusser's ideas of overdetermination, plural temporality, conjuncture, and theoretical practice"--.
In Knowing Science, Alexander Bird presents an epistemology of science that rejects empiricism and gives a central place to the concept of knowledge. Science aims at knowledge and progresses when it adds to the stock of knowledge. That knowledge is social knowingit is known by t…
Sigmund Freud: la costruzione di un sapere
by Ortu, Francesca, Gazzillo, Francesco
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Die Welt der Soziologie besteht, so scheint es, aus zwei klar voneinander getrennten Bereichen: aus dem Bereich der Theorie und dem der Empirie. Offenkundig wird dies an den Bezeichnungen universitärer Lehrstühle, bei Stellenausschreibungen und an der Konzeption von Lehrbüchern.…
Die Welt der Soziologie besteht, so scheint es, aus zwei klar voneinander getrennten Bereichen: aus dem Bereich der Theorie und dem der Empirie. Offenkundig wird dies an den Bezeichnungen universitärer Lehrstühle, bei Stellenausschreibungen und an der Konzeption von Lehrbüchern.…
Empirical data is one of the cornerstones of knowledge in the social sciences. And yet, the researcher often takes it for granted, reserving his or her imaginative faculties for finding a theory that fits the data. This revealing account of the theory-data relationship calls thi…