Knowing the social world /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1998.
Description:	x, 198 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Sociology -- Philosophy. Sociology -- Methodology. Social sciences -- Philosophy. Social sciences -- Methodology. Social sciences -- Methodology. Social sciences -- Philosophy. Sociology -- Methodology. Sociology -- Philosophy.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3561738

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Other authors / contributors:	May, Tim, 1957- Williams, Malcolm, 1953-
ISBN:	033519768X (hardcover) 0335197671 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-192) and indexes.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction: knowing the social world
1. The social world as knowable
2. Naturalisms and anti-naturalisms
3. When the knower is also the known
4. Social properties and their basis
5. Social theory and the analysis of society
6. The reality of social domains: implications for theory and method
7. Relationism, cubism, and reality: beyond relativism
8. Feminists' knowledge and the knowledge of feminisms: epistemology, theory, methodology and method
9. Quantitative and qualitative research strategies in knowing the social world
10. Reflections and reflexivity
References
Name index
Subject index

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