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2nd ed.

London : Routledge, c1992

xi,313 s.

ISBN 0-415-07607-2 (brož.)

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Bibliografie na s. 299-309

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Contents // Preface to the second edition page ix // Introduction 1 // 1 Knowledge in context 12 // Some misconceptions about knowledge - Knowledge, work and communicative interaction - The relationship between subject and object - Some implications of subject-object relations - Verstehen - Critical theory and the relationship between subject and object - Conclusions // 2 Theory, observation and practical adequacy 45 // Knowledge and object - Theory’ - The conceptual mediation of perception - Sense and reference and the conceptual and the empirical - Truth and practical adequacy -Relativism, inter-theory disputes and discontinuities in the development of knowledge - Theorizing’ and the development of knowledge - Conclusions // 3 Theory and method I: abstraction, structure and cause 85 // Abstraction and structural analysis - Structure, agency and reproduction - Contentless abstractions - Generalization - Causation and causal analysis - Conclusions // 4 Theory and method II: types of system and their // implications -118 // Stratification and emergent powers - Closed and open systems and regularities - Laws in science: causal and instrumentalist - Prediction - Rational abstractions and ‘chaotic conceptions’ - From abstract to concrete: the example of marxist research - The theoretical and the // viii Method in social science // empirical revisited - Spatial form and abstract and concrete research - Conclusion // 5 Some influential misadventures in the philosophy // of science

153 // Atomism and the problems of induction and causation -Necessity - The accusation of ‘essentialism’ - The limits of logic - Popper and deductivism // 6 Quantitative methods in social science 175 // Quantification - Mathematics: an acausal language -Accounting and quasi-causal models - Theoretical’ and ‘empirical’ models and closed and open systems - The role of assumptions in models - Statistical methods -Conclusions // 7 Verification and falsification 204 // Philosophical criticism - Existential hypotheses - Predictive tests - Causal explanations and explanatory tests -Interpretations - beyond evaluation? - Conclusions // 8 Popper’s ‘falsificationism’ 226 // 9 Problems of explanation and the aims of social science 232 // Explanation and the question of difficulty: I orthodox conception - Research design: intensive and extensive - Explanation and the question of difficulty: II critical theory conception // Appendix: Notes on realism, writing and the future of // method in social science 258 // Narrative versus analysis - The neglect of description -The influence of rhetoric // Notes and references 267 // Bibliography 299 // Index 310