Reconstructing Sociology: The Critical Realist Approach

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Reconstructing Sociology: The Critical Realist Approach

Critical realism is a philosophy of science that positions itself against the major alternative philosophies underlying contemporary sociology. This book offers a general critique of sociology, particularly sociology in the United States, from a critical realist perspective. It also acts as an introduction to critical realism for students and scholars of sociology. Written in a lively, accessible style, Douglas V. Porpora argues that sociology currently operates with deficient accounts of truth, culture, structure, agency, and causality that are all better served by a critical realist perspective. This approach argues against the alternative sociological perspectives, in particular the dominant positivism which privileges statistical techniques and experimental design over ethnographic and historical approaches. However, the book also compares critical realism favourably with a range of other approaches, including poststructuralism, pragmatism, interpretivism, practice theory, and relational sociology. Numerous sociological examples are included, and each chapter addresses well-known and current work in sociology.

Country	USA
Author	Douglas V. Porpora
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781316391228
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer	Cambridge University Press
NumberOfPages	252
PublicationDate	2015-08-31
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
ReleaseDate	2016-08-09
Studio	Cambridge University Press

Reconstructing Sociology: The Critical Realist Approach

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