02059cam a2200361 a 4500001001400000003000800014005001700022006001900039007001500058008004100073020003800114040003000152050002000182082001600202245011100218260002700329300005500356490004700411505020400458520053800662521001701200588004701217504004101264650003101305650004301336650003301379655002901412700003001441710001601471776003501487830004801522856012701570EDZ0000117267StDuBDS20161031105153.0m||||||||d||||||||cr |||||||||||130111s2006    enka   fo|    000|0|eng d  a9781446262832 (ebook) :cNo price  aStDuBDSbengcStDuBDSepn 0aH51b.P465 200604a300.72122300aPhilosophical foundations of social research methodsh[electronic resource] /cedited by Malcolm Williams.  aLondon :bSAGE,c2006.  a1 online resource (4 v. (various pagings)) :bill.1 aSAGE benchmarks in social research methods0 av. 1. Social research as science or art -- v. 2. Philosophical issues in research strategies -- v. 3. Social reality and social context of social research -- v. 4. New strategies in social reasearch.8 aThe 'philosophy of social research' is a subset of the philosophy of social science, but also an important subject area spanning methodology and method. The articles in this collection are the best exemplars of key positions in a very wide disciplinary field. Topics covered include science and art in the history of social research, positivism and antipositivism, language and the linguistic turn, realism and anti-realism, theory and theory choice, logic and models, prediction and laws, interpretation, probability and complexity.  aSpecialized.  aDescription based on print version record.  aIncludes bibliographical references. 0aSocial sciencesxResearch. 0aSocial sciencesxResearchxPhilosophy. 0aSocial sciencesxPhilosophy. 7aElectronic books.2local1 aWilliams, Malcolm,d1953-2 aSage eBooks08iPrint version :z9781412903820 0aSAGE benchmarks in social research methods.40uhttp://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://sk.sagepub.com/navigator/philosophical-foundations-of-social-research-methods