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Sociology
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The Philosophy of the Social Sciences: an introduction by Robert C. BishopPublication Date: 2007
The text examines key conceptual and methodological questions in the social sciences and illustrates how these shape the practice of research, the interpretation of findings and theory formulation in such disciplines as economics, political science and psychology. The book not only offers lucid and incisive coverage of the philosophy of the social sciences, but also extends the major debates and considers the latest directions in this growing area of philosophical interest
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Politics, Sociology, and Social Theory : encounters with classical and contemporary social thought by Anthony GiddensPublication Date: 1995
This book is built upon a series of critical encounteres with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought. The volume offers not only a challenging critique of major traditions of social and political analysis, but unique insights into the ideas which Anthony Giddens has developed over the past two decades. The volume includes discussions of politics and sociology in the thought of Max Weber, together with analyses of Durkheim's politlcal sociology and his interpretation of individualism and solidarity in modern societies.
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A Sociology of Modernity: liberty and discipline by Peter WagnerPublication Date: 1994
This book offers a sociology of modernity in terms of an historical account of social transformations over the past two centuries, focusing on Western Europe but also looking at the USA and at Soviet socialism as distinct variants of modernity.
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Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Science by André KuklaPublication Date: 2000
Andre Kukla presents a comprehensive discussion of the philosophical issues involved and analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of a range of constructivist arguments, illustrating the divide between the sociology and the philosophy of science through examples as varied as laboratory science, time, and criminality. He argues that current philosophical objections to constructivism are drastically inconclusive, while offering and developing new objections. Throughout, Kukla distinguishes between the social causes of scientific beliefs and the view that all ascertainable facts are constructed.
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Problematics of Sociology: the Georg Simmel lectures, 1995 by Neil J. SmelserPublication Date: 1997
These skillfully written essays are based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J. Smelser at Humboldt University in Berlin in the spring of 1995. A distillation of Smelser's reflections after nearly four decades of research, teaching, and thought in the field of sociology, the essays identify, as he says in the first chapter, ". . . some central problematics--those generic, recurrent, never resolved and never completely resolvable issues--that shape the work of the sociologist.
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Sociology and Ideology by E. Ben-RafaelPublication Date: 2003
When examining how the social sciences have dealt with ideology, one's first impression is often one of considerable confusion. Sociology in particular is the scene of heated debates about ideology. These debates go sometimes so far as to echo doubts of participants with regard to their opponents' scientific endeavor, even straightforward denials of their scientific status.
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Politics, Sociology, and Social Theory : encounters with classical and contemporary social thought by 
Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Science by 
Problematics of Sociology: the Georg Simmel lectures, 1995 by 
Philosophy of Social Science by 
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