Book Series in Sociology
Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
New & Published Titles:
A Philosophical History of German Sociology
ISBN: 978-0-415-47362-0 | Published September 24th 2008 by Routledge.
more information about A Philosophical History of German SociologyRevitalizing 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 powers,...ISBN: 978-0-415-37218-3 | Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Revitalizing CausalityEngendering 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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-42877-4 | Published April 20th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Engendering the StateEmergentist 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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-39506-9 | Published March 29th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Emergentist MarxismExplaining 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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-39212-9 | Published May 18th 2006 by Routledge.
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On Christian Belief
A Defence of a Cognitive Conception of Religious Belief in a Christian Context
On Christian Belief offers a defence of realism in the philosophy of religion. It argues that religious belief - with particular reference to Christian belief...ISBN: 978-0-415-31522-7 | Published May 15th 2003 by Routledge.
more information about On Christian BeliefCritical Realism and Composition Theory
The field of composition theory has emerged as part of the intellectual turmoil and set of pedagogical debates which have beset higher education for the...ISBN: 978-0-415-28049-5 | Published May 1st 2003 by Routledge.
more information about Critical Realism and Composition TheoryBeyond Relativism
Raymond Boudon, Cognitive Rationality and Critical Realism
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-25851-7 | Published November 22nd 2001 by Routledge.
more information about Beyond RelativismSeries 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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Forthcoming Titles:
Interdisciplinarity and Health
By Roy Bhaskar, Berth Danermark
February 15th 2009
Interdisciplinary and Health
By Roy Bhaskar, Berth Danermark
April 10th 2009
Maurice Mandelbaum and American Critical Realism
Edited by Ian Verstegen
April 15th 2009