Critical Theory and MethodologyRecipient of Choice Magazine′s 1996 Outstanding Academic Book Award Author Raymond Morrow outlines and recounts the development of the major tenets of critical theory, exemplifying them through the works of two of their most influential, recent adherents: Jürgen Habermas and Anthony Giddens. Beginning with a comprehensive yet meticulous explication of critical theory and its history, the author next discusses it within the context of a research program; his work concludes with an examination of empirical methods. Emphasizing the connections between critical theory, empirical research, and social science methodology, Morrow′s volume offers refreshing insights on traditional and current material. |
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... focus of this book. But the outcome is, I think, quite consistent with things we implicitly learned growing up together and that I can now name: the necessary interplay between critical realist ontology, methodological pragmatism, and ...
... focus of this book. But the outcome is, I think, quite consistent with things we implicitly learned growing up together and that I can now name: the necessary interplay between critical realist ontology, methodological pragmatism, and ...
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... focus. Further, it could serve interested colleagues in search of a guide to recent debates and a jumping off point for more specialized reading. Third, it seeks to address indirectly those trained in the humanities but in need of an ...
... focus. Further, it could serve interested colleagues in search of a guide to recent debates and a jumping off point for more specialized reading. Third, it seeks to address indirectly those trained in the humanities but in need of an ...
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... focused on critical theory's problematic relation to empirical research. Further, it responds to the skeptical and ... focus on different aspects of domination (e.g., feminist theory) or draw on different methodological tools (e.g. ...
... focused on critical theory's problematic relation to empirical research. Further, it responds to the skeptical and ... focus on different aspects of domination (e.g., feminist theory) or draw on different methodological tools (e.g. ...
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... focused on modes of domination “beyond Marx,” he rejects the “growing chorus of voices . . . arguing that Marxian theory needs to be superseded” (1987, p.117). His point is that nonMarxian modes of domination (e.g., race and gender) ...
... focused on modes of domination “beyond Marx,” he rejects the “growing chorus of voices . . . arguing that Marxian theory needs to be superseded” (1987, p.117). His point is that nonMarxian modes of domination (e.g., race and gender) ...
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... focus of the social sciences was the attempt to understand the massive transformations–still continuing today–that emerged initially in Europe in the form of what have been described as the “two great revolutions” of the 18th and 19th ...
... focus of the social sciences was the attempt to understand the massive transformations–still continuing today–that emerged initially in Europe in the form of what have been described as the “two great revolutions” of the 18th and 19th ...
Contents
Between Subjectivism | |
Postempiricist Critiques of Positivism and Empiricism | |
A Historical | |
Interim | |
Beyond Objectivism | |
Giddens | |
Reflexive Procedures | |
Empirical Procedures in Critical Research | |
Contexts of Critical Empirical Research | |
Theory and Practice | |
About the Authors | |
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Critical Theory and Methodology Raymond A. Morrow,Raymond Allen Morrow,David D. Brown Limited preview - 1994 |
Critical Theory and Methodology Raymond A. Morrow,Raymond Allen Morrow,David D. Brown Snippet view - 1994 |
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