James B. Rule

Theory and Progress in Social Science

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work asks if social inquiry can truly be considered a progressive 'science'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780521573658
• ISBN-10: 0521573653
• Artikelnr.: 26948819

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Progress: formal and substantive
1. Dilemmas of intellectual progress
2. The reckoning of progress
Introduction to Part II
3. Rational choice
4. From Parsons to Alexander: closure through theoretical generality
5. Network analysis
6. Feminist analysis in social science James Rule and Leslie Irvine
Introduction to Part III
7. Theory as expression
8. Theory for coping
9. Summary and conclusion.