TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Malcolm
ED  - Sage eBooks
TI  - Philosophical foundations of social research methods
T2  - SAGE benchmarks in social research methods
SN  - 9781446262832 (ebook) :
AV  - H51 .P465 2006
U1  - 300.721 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Research
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; v. 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; Specialized
N2  - The '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
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ER  -