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Analytical Dualism
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Colonial Immigration
Coloured Colonial
concept
critical realism
Cultural Elaboration
Cultural EPs
cycle
dualism
epistemological analysis
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Idea
ideas
identity formation theory
immigration
Lay Discourses
Logical Relations
morphogenetic
Morphogenetic Cycle
Postwar
postwar migration studies
race
Race Concepts
Race Ideas
racialization
realist approach to race concepts
Realist Social Science
Secretary Of State
Situational Logic
social ontology
sociological measurement
Sociological Realism
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Stratified Social Ontology
Stratified Social Reality
Structural Emergent Property
TRA
Transracial Adoption
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Product details
- ISBN 9780415233729
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Oct 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
