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  • One may state Dilthey s significance in most general fashion by characterizing... One may state Dilthey s significance in most general fashion by characterizing his work as the first thorough-going and sophisticated confrontation of history with positivism and natural science. Dilthey s sweep was universal: he strove to reduce to... more
  • One may state Dilthey s significance in most general fashion by characterizing... One may state Dilthey s significance in most general fashion by characterizing his work as the first thorough-going and sophisticated confrontation of history with positivism and natural science. Dilthey s sweep was universal: he strove to reduce to... more
  • One may state Dilthey s significance in most general fashion by characterizing... One may state Dilthey s significance in most general fashion by characterizing his work as the first thorough-going and sophisticated confrontation of history with positivism and natural science. Dilthey s sweep was universal: he strove to reduce to... more
  • One may state Dilthey s significance in most general fashion by characterizing... One may state Dilthey s significance in most general fashion by characterizing his work as the first thorough-going and sophisticated confrontation of history with positivism and natural science. Dilthey s sweep was universal: he strove to reduce to... more
  • This collection reflects the French influence on literary and representational... This collection reflects the French influence on literary and representational theory which has been predominant in recent years. It contains stimulating essays on the fiction of Perault Borges James Eco and Tournier. These are complemented by... more
  • Meanings and Situations is an account of the interactionist position. It is a ... Meanings and Situations is an account of the interactionist position. It is a committed account in the sense that it sees the central concerns of social psychology and sociology as being located in an interpretative and humanistic framework. At the... more
  • The concepts of rationality that are used by social scientists in the formatio... The concepts of rationality that are used by social scientists in the formation of hypotheses models and explanations are explored in this collection of original papers by a number of distinguished philosophers and social scientists. The aim of the... more
  • An experienced teacher of courses on the sociology of the family D.H.J. Morgan... An experienced teacher of courses on the sociology of the family D.H.J. Morgan frequently encounters a gulf between the family as it is often treated in sociological texts and the family as it is usually experienced. In this book he provides an... more
  • The annual Conferences on Value Inquiry bring together philosophers scientists... The annual Conferences on Value Inquiry bring together philosophers scientists and humanists to discuss the many facets of the problem of value in the experience of the individual and in contemporary society. One of the criteria in choosing papers... more
  • A central problem in contemporary social theory is that of providing an accoun... A central problem in contemporary social theory is that of providing an account of social interaction that does justice both to the self-monitoring capacities of the individuals involved and to the society that frames the interaction. This book... more
  • This book examines the question of how our knowledge of social life affects an... This book examines the question of how our knowledge of social life affects and ought to affect our way of living it. In so doing it critically discusses two epistemological models of social science - the positivist and the interpretive - from the... more
  • Choice Rationality and Social Theory is a powerful rebuttal of the remarkably ... Choice Rationality and Social Theory is a powerful rebuttal of the remarkably influential theories underlying rational choice analysis . Rational choice analysis maintains that social life is principally to be explained as the outcome of rational... more
  • After a period in which sociology was torn apart by the polarized claims of mi... After a period in which sociology was torn apart by the polarized claims of micro- and macro-methodology an increasing number of sociologists are now attempting a fusion of the two approaches. In this volume some of the most distinguished... more
  • A striking feature of the human condition is its dual contradictory inherently... A striking feature of the human condition is its dual contradictory inherently split character; on the one hand autonomy and freedom; on the other constraint and dependence on social structure. This volume addresses this central problem of the... more
  • Sociologists and historians are not always the best of neighbours each group t... Sociologists and historians are not always the best of neighbours each group tending to perceive the other in terms of the crudest of stereotypes. However the two approaches are obviously complementary - change is structured and structures change.... more
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