ABSTRACT

This book will be immensely valuable for students and researchers in social science, sociology and philosophy in that it connects methodology, theory and empirical research. It provides an innovative picture of what society and social science is, along with the methods used to study and explain social phenomena.

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

PART I Introduction to critical realism

chapter 2|26 pages

Science, reality and concepts

chapter 3|30 pages

Conceptual abstraction and causality

part |2 pages

PART II Methodological implications