In its second edition, Method in Social Science was widely praised for its penetrating analysis of central questions in social science discourse. This revised edition comes with a new preface and a full bibliography. The book is intended for students and researchers familiar with social science but having little or no previous experiences of philosophical and methodological discussion, and for those who are interested in realism and method.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface to the revised second edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Introduction
- 1 Knowledge in context
- 2 Theory, observation and practical adequacy
- 3 Theory and method I: abstraction, structure and cause
- 4 Theory and method II: types of system and their implications
- 5 Some influential misadventures in the philosophy of science
- 6 Quantitative methods in social science
- 7 Verification and falsification
- 8 Popper’s ‘falsificationism’
- 9 Problems of explanation and the aims of social science
- Appendix Notes on realism, writing and the future of method in social science
- Notes and references
- Bibliography
- Index
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