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Cambridge University Press The Philosophy of Social Science An Introduction Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
This textbook by Martin Hollis offers an exceptionally clear and concise introduction to the philosophy of social science. It examines questions which give rise to fundamental philosophical issues. Are social structures better conceived of as systems of laws and forces, or as webs of meanings and practices? Is social action better viewed as rational behaviour, or as self-expression? By exploring such questions, the reader is led to reflect upon the nature of scientific method in social science. Is the aim to explain the social world after a manner worked out for the natural world, or to understand the social world from within?
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Cambridge University Press Spatial Data Analysis in the Social and Environmental Sciences
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Cambridge University Press The Postmodern Turn
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Cambridge University Press Norms in a Wired World
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Cambridge University Press A Structural Theory of Social Influence 13 Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series Number 13
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Cambridge University Press The Postmodern Turn
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Cambridge University Press Social Capital A Theory of Social Structure and Action 19 Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series Number 19
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Cambridge University Press Changing the Rules
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Cambridge University Press Social Postmodernism
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Cambridge University Press The New Public
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Cambridge University Press Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences
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Cambridge University Press Genders Races and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry 19081934
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Cambridge University Press Realist Social Theory The Morphogenetic Approach
Book SynopsisBuilding on her seminal contribution to social theory in Culture and Agency, in this 1995 book Margaret Archer develops her morphogenetic approach, applying it to the problem of structure and agency. Since structure and agency constitute different levels of stratified social reality, each possesses distinctive emergent properties which are real and causally efficacious but irreducible to one another. The problem, therefore, is shown to be how to link the two rather than conflate them, as has been common theoretical practice. Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach not only rejects methodological individualism and holism, but argues that the debate between them has been replaced by a new one, between elisionary theorising and emergentist theories based on a realist ontology of the social world. The morphogenetic approach is the sociological complement of transcendental realism, and together they provide a basis for non-conflationary theorizing which is also of direct utility tTable of Contents1. The vexatious fact of society; Part I. The Problem of Structure and Agency: Four Alternative Solutions: 2. Individualism versus collectivism: querying the terms of the debate; 3. Taking time to link structure and agency; 4. Elision and central conflation; 5. Realism and morphogenesis; Part II. The Morphogenetic Cycle: 6. Analytical dualism: the basis of the morphogenetic approach; 7. Structural and cultural conditioning; 8. The morphogenesis of agency; 9. Social elaboration.
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Cambridge University Press Social Capital A Theory of Social Structure and Action 19 Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series Number 19
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Cambridge University Press The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure
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Cambridge University Press The Sociology of Norbert Elias
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Cambridge University Press Recog Struggles Social Movements
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Cambridge University Press Identity Ideology and Conflict The Structuration of Politics in Northern Ireland
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Cambridge University Press Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences
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Cambridge University Press Culture and Agency
A revised and updated edition of Margaret Archer's seminal contribution to social theory and the case for the role of culture in sociological thought.
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Cambridge University Press Time Labor and Social Domination A Reinterpretation of Marxs Critical Theory
Book SynopsisMoishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Karl Marx's mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses and offers new interpretations of Marx's central arguments. He does so by developing concepts aimed at grasping the essential character and historical development of modern society, and also at overcoming the familiar dichotomies of structure and action, meaning and material life. These concepts lead him to an original analysis of the nature and problems of capitalism and provide the basis for a critique of 'actually existing socialism'. According to this new interpretation, Marx identifies the core of the capitalist system with an impersonal form of social domination generated by labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination generated by labor itself and not simply with market mechanisms and private property. Proletarian labor and the industrial production process Trade Review'Postone has produced the best analysis of Marx's mature socioeconomic theory since David Harvey's The Limits to Capital (1982). It is obviously the fruit of long years of research and lengthy meditation. It is the kind of work that is well worth waiting for.' David McLellan, American Political Science Review'In this complex, dense, richly argued, and rewarding monograph, Moishe Postone offers a fundamental reconstruction and reinterpretation of the core structure of Capital. The rigor and richness of Postone's arguments makes this a key book even for those with other perspectives on capitalist dynamics.' Bob Jessop, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPart I. A Critique of Traditional Marxism: 1. Rethinking Marx's critique of capitalism; 2. Presuppositions of traditional Marxism; 3. The limits of traditional Marxism and the pessimistic turn of Critical Theory; Part II. Toward a Reconstruction of the Marxian Critique: The Commodity 4. Abstract labor; 5. Abstract time; 6. Habermas's critique of Marx; Part III. Toward a Reconstruction of the Marxian Critique: capital; 7. Toward a theory of capital; 8. The dialectic of labor and time; 9. The trajectory of production; 10. Concluding considerations.
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Cambridge University Press Tönnies Community and Civil Society
Book SynopsisGemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (Community and Civil Society) is a classic of social and political theory, exploring the tension between close-knit 'communities' and an emerging global market 'society'. This new translation and introduction make this seminal work accessible to students of social and political theory and the history of European ideas.Trade Review' … the translators have here done an excellent job of translation from nineteenth-century German to twenty-first century English.' German HistoryTable of ContentsGeneral introduction; Chronology of Tönnies' life and career; Community and Civil Society; Tönnies' Preface to the first edition of 1887; 1.1. A general classification of key ideas; 1.2. Theory of Gesellschaft; 2.1. The forms of human will; 2.2. Explanation of the dichotomy; 3.1. The sociological basis of natural law; 3.2. Definitions and propositions; 3.3. The natural element in law; Conclusions and future prospects.
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Cambridge University Press Nationalism Reframed
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Cambridge University Press International Relations in Political Thought
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Cambridge University Press Theory and Progress in Social Science
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Cambridge University Press Coercive Power in Social Exchange
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Cambridge University Press Theory and Progress in Social Science
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Cambridge University Press International Relations in Political Thought
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Cambridge University Press Nationalism Reframed
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Cambridge University Press Trust
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Cambridge University Press Social Mechanisms
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Cambridge University Press Social Mechanisms
Book SynopsisThe mechanism approach calls attention to an intermediary level of analysis in between pure description and story-telling, on the one hand, and grand theorizing and universal social laws, on the other. These essays, written by prominent social scientists, advance criticisms of current trends in social theory and suggest alternative approaches.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of contributors; 1. Social mechanisms: an introductory essay Peter Hedström and Richard Swedberg; 2. Social mechanisms and social dynamics Thomas C. Schelling; 3. A plea for mechanisms Jon Elster; 4. Real virtuality Gudmund Hernes; 5. Concatenations of mechanisms Diego Gambetta; 6. Do economists use social mechanisms to explain? Tyler Cowen; 7. Social mechanisms of dissonance reduction Timur Kuran; 8. Social mechanisms without black boxes Raymond Boudon; 9. Is sociological theory too grand for social mechanisms? Axel van den Berg; 10. Theoretical mechanisms and the empirical study of social processes Aage B. Sørensen; 11. Monopolistic competition as a mechanism: corporations, universities, and nation-states in competitive fields Arthur L. Stinchcombe; 12. Rational imitation Peter Hedström; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press An Anatomy of Power The Social Theory of Michael Mann
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Cambridge University Press Computational and Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences
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Cambridge University Press Fundamentalism Sectarianism and Revolution The Jacobin Dimension of Modernity Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
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Cambridge University Press Fundamentalism Sectarianism and Revolution The Jacobin Dimension of Modernity Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
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Cambridge University Press The Myth of Social Action
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Cambridge University Press Cultures of Inquiry From Epistemology to Discourse in Sociohistorical Research
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Cambridge University Press Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy and Public Affairs 45 Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements Series Number 45
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Cambridge University Press Diverse Communities
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Cambridge University Press The Work of Global Justice
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Cambridge University Press Secularism Religion and Multicultural Citizenship
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Cambridge University Press Democracy
Book SynopsisDemocracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundred years. Through analytic narratives and comparisons of multiple regimes, mostly since World War II, this book makes the case for recasting current theories of democracy, democratization and de-democratization.Trade Review'In this compelling work, Charles Tilly brings his unrivaled historical knowledge to bear on fundamental questions of democracy. His argument focuses on long-run social processes, not only those that further democratization but also those that often rapidly undermine it. In restoring the centrality of history to scholarship on democratization, he sets a research agenda that will occupy scholars for some time to come.' Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University and the Santa Fe Institute'Accessibly written, the volume will reward a broad readership.' Political Studies Review'Tilly presents the book as the 'culmination and synthesis' (p. xii) of his democratisation work and its final pages contain a provocative challenge to those in the democratisation business. … those interested in promoting democracy should focus on supporting the three process-based developments he identifies. Accessibly written, the volume will reward a broad readership.'' Political Studies ReviewTable of Contents1. What is democracy; 2. Democracy in history; 3. Democratization and de-democratization; 4. Trust and distrust; 5. Equality and inequality; 6. Power and public politics; 7. Alternative paths; 8. Democracy's past and futures.
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Cambridge University Press Social Constructionism Sources and Stirrings in Theory and Practice
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Cambridge University Press Causation in International Relations Reclaiming Causal Analysis 108 Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series Number 108
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Cambridge University Press How Modernity Forgets
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Cambridge University Press Political Islam Iran and the Enlightenment
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