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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... reality to be perverse and unnecessary. (Horkheimer [1937] 1972a, p. 323) La sociologie de la sociologie. . . est un instrument indispensable de la methode sociologique: on fait de la science–est surtout de la sociologie– contre sa ...
... reality to be perverse and unnecessary. (Horkheimer [1937] 1972a, p. 323) La sociologie de la sociologie. . . est un instrument indispensable de la methode sociologique: on fait de la science–est surtout de la sociologie– contre sa ...
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... reality of this methodological pluralism is expressed today in the notion that the social sciences are multiparadigmatic disciplines. In this context the notion of paradigm of research refers to the full range of assumptions and ...
... reality of this methodological pluralism is expressed today in the notion that the social sciences are multiparadigmatic disciplines. In this context the notion of paradigm of research refers to the full range of assumptions and ...
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... reality, but should be engaged consciously with the process of its transformation. The three leading theorists of this original Frankfurt group were Max Horkheimer (18951973), Theodor Adorno (19031969), and Herbert Marcuse (18981979). 4 ...
... reality, but should be engaged consciously with the process of its transformation. The three leading theorists of this original Frankfurt group were Max Horkheimer (18951973), Theodor Adorno (19031969), and Herbert Marcuse (18981979). 4 ...
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... reality construction that both reveal and conceal the experiences of subjects; that structures may be speciesspecific or historically constituted and sometimes consciously transformed even if they have a kind of objective facticity that ...
... reality construction that both reveal and conceal the experiences of subjects; that structures may be speciesspecific or historically constituted and sometimes consciously transformed even if they have a kind of objective facticity that ...
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... reality. As it happens, critical theories of society are associated closely with ideologies and, in fact, often are rejected as too ideological to claim to be proper social science. From our perspective, this is one of critical theory's ...
... reality. As it happens, critical theories of society are associated closely with ideologies and, in fact, often are rejected as too ideological to claim to be proper social science. From our perspective, this is one of critical theory's ...
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 |
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