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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... problems of linking German and French theory (as exemplified in the work of the late Québécois sociologist, Marcel Rioux) and led to an ongoing intellectual exchange with Greg Nielsen (e.g., Nielsen and Morrow 1991), now at Glendon ...
... problems of linking German and French theory (as exemplified in the work of the late Québécois sociologist, Marcel Rioux) and led to an ongoing intellectual exchange with Greg Nielsen (e.g., Nielsen and Morrow 1991), now at Glendon ...
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... problem is an often cavalier attitude toward questions of empirical adequacy on the basis of a wholesale rejection of “empiricism,” a tendency first evident in Althusserian structuralism and now reinforced in rather different ways by ...
... problem is an often cavalier attitude toward questions of empirical adequacy on the basis of a wholesale rejection of “empiricism,” a tendency first evident in Althusserian structuralism and now reinforced in rather different ways by ...
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... problems of different contexts of inquiry. Third, various considerations have led to a relative neglect of the range of external and internal criticisms that have been directed against critical theory as a research program. Yet the ...
... problems of different contexts of inquiry. Third, various considerations have led to a relative neglect of the range of external and internal criticisms that have been directed against critical theory as a research program. Yet the ...
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... problems of interpreting cultural texts. Perhaps because of their shared object of inquiry and overlapping methods, the humanities and social sciences are combined most often in a single “arts faculty”; sometimes, however, the social ...
... problems of interpreting cultural texts. Perhaps because of their shared object of inquiry and overlapping methods, the humanities and social sciences are combined most often in a single “arts faculty”; sometimes, however, the social ...
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... Problems of Definition Before we turn to a more detailed definition of critical theory, it is necessary to preface the discussion with some comments about the rather unfortunate term critical theory itself.1 Beyond the obvious problem ...
... Problems of Definition Before we turn to a more detailed definition of critical theory, it is necessary to preface the discussion with some comments about the rather unfortunate term critical theory itself.1 Beyond the obvious problem ...
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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