Beyond relativism : Raymond Boudon, cognitive rationality and critical realism / Cynthia Lins Hamlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamlin, Cynthia Lins, 1969-

Series:

Routledge studies in critical realism ; 2.

Routledge studies in critical realism ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boudon, Raymond.

Social psychology.

Social perception.

Cultural relativism.

Cognition and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (167 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities. Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that critical realism represents a better safeguard against the relativism which springs from the conflation of social reality and our ideas about it. This is an important book for sociologists and anyone working in the social sciences, and for all those concerned with the methodology, and philosophy, of

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The action paradigm: bringing the agent back in; Linking structure and agency in Boudon's substantive analyses; Beyond Homo sociologicus and Homo economicus: a complex theory of rationality; Understanding, explanation and objectivity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [142]-148) and index.

ISBN:

0-87451-634-X

1-134-57592-0

1-134-57593-9

1-280-40187-7

0-203-28309-0

0-203-16753-8

9780203167533

OCLC:

437077167