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agency and structure
Agency Structure Debate
Author_Cynthia Lins Hamlin
boudon
Boudon's Model
Boudon's Theory
Boudon's Work
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Boudon’s Model
Boudon’s Theory
Boudon’s Work
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Causal Powers
causal powers analysis
cognitive
Cognitive Rationality
Descriptive Laws
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Gudmund Hernes
homo
Homo Sociologicus
Humean Causal Law
Hypothetico Deductive System
Hypothetico Deductive Theory
individualism
Main Philosophical Debates
methodological
methodological individualism
Modus Tollens
objectivity in sociology
Perverse Effects
philosophy of social science
Priori Notions
rational action theory in sociology
rationality
raymond
Raymond Boudon
Sceptical Solution
Singular Causal Claim
Social Structures
social theory
sociologicus
theory
Totalitarian Realism
Universal Kernel
Vice Versa
View Points
Product details
- ISBN 9780415523998
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jan 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities. Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that critical realism represents a better safeguard against the relativism which springs from the conflation of social reality and our ideas about it.
This is an important book for sociologists and anyone working in the social sciences, and for all those concerned with the methodology, and philosophy, of social science.
Cynthia Lins Hamlin is a lecturer in social theory at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. She is currently the editor of the Brazilian journal Estudos de Sociologica
