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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... interpretive methods. That experience revealed convergent interests and led us to explore the possibility of collaboration on a project redefining methodology from the perspective of critical theory. That collaborative project was ...
... interpretive methods. That experience revealed convergent interests and led us to explore the possibility of collaboration on a project redefining methodology from the perspective of critical theory. That collaborative project was ...
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... specialized debates. In particular, the methodological notion of interpretive structuralism has an ecumenical objective: It seeks to draw out the similarities between a number of research approaches that are more often thought as Preface.
... specialized debates. In particular, the methodological notion of interpretive structuralism has an ecumenical objective: It seeks to draw out the similarities between a number of research approaches that are more often thought as Preface.
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... interpretive structuralist research program of contemporary critical theory. While we would agree that this general methodological conception can be traced back to Marx (and Hegel), we would contest the suggestion that contemporary ...
... interpretive structuralist research program of contemporary critical theory. While we would agree that this general methodological conception can be traced back to Marx (and Hegel), we would contest the suggestion that contemporary ...
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... interpretive turn” that has become visible in the human sciences during the past decade, in which “interpretation has gained a certain currency, even prestige, in philosophical circles and in the social sciences” (Rabinow and Sullivan ...
... interpretive turn” that has become visible in the human sciences during the past decade, in which “interpretation has gained a certain currency, even prestige, in philosophical circles and in the social sciences” (Rabinow and Sullivan ...
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... interpretive approaches, the study of the empirical character of societies differs in at least two basic ways from the natural sciences. First, “social facts” are qualitatively different from the “facts” of nature because they are ...
... interpretive approaches, the study of the empirical character of societies differs in at least two basic ways from the natural sciences. First, “social facts” are qualitatively different from the “facts” of nature because they are ...
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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 |
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