Beyond relativism Raymond Boudon, cognitive rationality and critical realism
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 t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
2002.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Routledge studies in critical realism ;
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009797968806719 |
Table 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
