Douglas V. Porpora

Reconstructing Sociology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A general critique of sociology, particularly sociology in the United States, from a critical realist perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781107514713
• ISBN-10: 1107514711
• Artikelnr.: 42804530

Autorenporträt

Douglas V. Porpora is a Professor of Sociology at Drexel University, Philadelphia. His previous publications include Post-Ethical Society: The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Seven myths of American sociology
2. Do realists run regressions?
3. What is truth?
4. Whatever happened to social structure?
5. Are we not men - or, rather, persons?
6. What and where is culture?
7. Do we need critical realism?
8. So what do we do with it?