附註:"First published 2003 by Routledge"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-168) and index.
1. The philosophical logic of immediacy : the epistemic fallacy and the genetic fallacy -- 2. The in£uence of empiricism on social ontology : methodological individualism and methodological collectivism -- 3. Post-Wittgensteinian pragmatism : Rorty, anti-representationalism and politics -- 4. Post-Wittgensteinian sociology : Giddens' ontology of practices -- 5. Social realism : overcoming the sociological logic of immediacy -- 6. Social realism and the study of chronic unemployment.
摘要:In recent years, methodology debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on issues relating to epistemology. Realism and Sociology makes an original contribution to the debate.