Book Series in Sociology
Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
New & Published Titles:
Explaining Global Poverty
A Critical Realist Approach
The twenty-first century is characterized by extremes of poverty and wealth, of scarcity and abundance. The vast inequalties of wealth distribution between the developed west…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56869-2 (Routledge)
Revitalizing Causality
Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science
This cutting edge collection of new and previously published articles by philosophers and social scientists addresses just what it means to invoke causal mechanisms, or… read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56871-5 (Routledge)
Engendering the State
The International Diffusion of Women's Human Rights
Why have states in general been slower to incorporate the international diffusion of women’s human rights norms domestically than other human rights norms and why…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56870-8 (Routledge)
A Philosophical History of German Sociology
A Philosophical History of German Sociology presents a systematic reconstruction of critical theory, from the founding fathers of sociology (Marx, Simmel, Weber) via Lukács to…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56872-2 (Routledge)
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Against the Spiritual Turn
Marxism, Realism, and Critical Theory
The argument presented in this book is that the recent ‘spiritual’ trajectory of Roy Bhaskar’s work, upon which he first embarked with the publication of…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-49031-3 (Routledge)
Emergentist Marxism
Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory
In tackling emergentist Marxism in depth, this well-written volume demonstrates that critical realism and materialist dialectics are indispensable to theorizing the functioning of complex social…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54760-4 (Routledge)
Education Policy and Realist Social Theory
Primary Teachers, Child-Centred Philosophy and the New Managerialism
In Europe welfare state provision has been subjected to 'market forces'. Over the last two decades, the framework of economic competitiveness has become the defining… read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46433-8 (Routledge)
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Ontology of Sex
Poststructuralism, particularly through the writings of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, has achieved remarkable success in challenging our belief in natural sex categories and instincts.…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46436-9 (Routledge)
Critical Realism, Post-positivism and the Possibility of Knowledge
Groff defends 'realism about causality' through close discussions of Kant, Hilary Putnam, Brian Ellis and Charles Taylor, among others. In so doing she affirms critical… read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46435-2 (Routledge)
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Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism
2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32786-2 (Routledge)
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Series Details:
Critical realism is one of the most influential new developments in the philosophy of science and in the social sciences, providing a powerful alternative to positivism and post modernism. This series will explore the critical realist position in philosophy and across the social sciences.
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