03635nam a2200409Ii 45000010014000000030008000140050017000220060019000390070015000580080041000730200027001140400031001410500019001720720017001910720023002080800006002310820012002372450116002492640032003653000039003974900059004365000020004955040041005155050493005565201762010495880025028116500036028366500033028726500014029056500056029196500027029757000030030027000039030327760018030718300059030898560077031489781787566033UtOrBLW20210303084923.0m     o  d        cr un|||||||||180815s2018    enk     ob    001 0 eng d  a9781787566033 (e-book)  aUtOrBLWbengerdacUtOrBLW 4aB63b.C75 2018 7aJHBA2bicssc 7aSOC0260402bisacsh  a304a32022300aCritical realism, history, and philosophy in the social sciences /cedited by Timothy Rutzou, George Steinmetz. 1bEmerald Publishing Limited,  a1 online resource (xv, 162 pages).1 aPolitical Power and Social Theory,x0198-8719 ;vv. 34  aIncludes index.  aIncludes bibliographical references.00tPrelims --tCrisis!? What crisis!? On social theory and reflexivity --tAfter positivism: critical realism and historical sociology --tUses of value judgments in science: a general argument, with lessons from a case study of feminist research on divorce --tPrinciples of reconstructive social theory --tConjunctures and assemblages: approaches to multicausal explanation in the human sciences --tStrange bedfellows? Ontology, normativity, critical realism, and queer theory --tIndex.  aSocial science, history, and philosophy have often been neglect in thinking through their fundamentally intertwined relationship. The result is often an inattention to philosophy where social science and history is concerned, or a neglect of historicity and social analysis where philosophy is concerned. Meanwhile, the place of values in research is often uneasily passed over in silence. The inattention to, and loss of, the intersection between these different disciplines and their subject matters, leaves our investigations all the more impoverished as a result. In resolving these problems, it is not enough to strive for cooperation or integration, but to rethink of the nature of the disciplines themselves; their interests, purposes, and presuppositions. In this volume, contributors explore different facets of these relationships, and move beyond the problematics erected by positivism often cast in terms of value-free or value-neutral science, that is, a science obsessed with empirical data, schematic classifications, and the pursuit of law-like forms. While positivism has been subject to critique, the influence and legacy of positivism remains. It remains in the way in which we often think about science; the line drawn between the sciences and the humanities; the norms researchers should follow; what a successful explanation looks like; and the ethical, normative, and political implications of scientific research.Aimed at students and researchers of philosophy, history and the social sciences, this book is driven by a desire to revindicate questions concerning ontology and social ontology, to rethink the nature of explanation, and to resituate normativity and values within scientific, social scientific, and historical pursuits.0 aPrint version record 0aPhilosophy and social sciences. 0aSocial sciences and history. 0aOntology. 7aSocial SciencexSociology / Social Theory.2bisacsh 7aSocial theory.2bicssc1 aRutzou, Timothy,eeditor.1 aSteinmetz, George,d1957-eeditor.  z9781787566040 0aPolitical power and social theory ;vv. 34.x0198-871940uhttps://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0198-8719201834