Bob Carter

Realism and Racism (eBook, PDF)

Concepts of Race in Sociological Research

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

There are continuing difficulties within social science surrounding concepts of race. This book suggests that these difficulties stem from the uncertain ontological and epistemological status of ideas about race, itself a consequence of the recognition that concepts of race have all but lost their relevance as sociologically significant descriptions.
This book surveys ways in which social scientists have attempted to come to terms with this situation, before developing an alternative approach based on recent work by realist authors. This approach offers a radical revision of orthodox debates about race concepts, about the possibility of a social science and about the nature of empirical research. This illustrated through two policy examples: an account of post war migration to the UK, and debates about trans-racial adoption in the UK and the USA.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134568727
• Artikelnr.: 42636429

Autorenporträt

Carter, Bob

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. A sociological concept of race
2 Discourse
identity and difference: postmodernism and concepts of race
3 A realist social science
4 Realism
race and racism
5 Race concepts and the cultural system
6 Culture
structure and agency ( 1 ): 1945-51
7 Culture
structure and agency (2): 1951-83
8 Doing without race: racism
discrimination and realistic measurement
9 Defending a science of the social
Bibliography
Index