TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keat,Russell
AU  - Urry,John
TI  - Social theory as science
T2  - Routledge revivals
SN  - 0710094310
AV  - H 83 KEA
PY  - 1982///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge & Kegan Paul
KW  - social sciences - philosophy
N1  - Includes index; pt. I. Conceptions of Science -- 1. Positivist philosophy of science -- 2. Realist philosophy of science -- 3. Forms of conventionalism -- -- pt. II. Conceptions of Science as Social Theory -- 4. Sociology and positivism -- 5. Marx and realism -- 6. Structure and structuralism -- -- pt. III. Meaning and Ideology -- 7. The explantion and understanding of social action -- 8. Reification and realism -- 9. Values, theory and reality
N2  - This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life. This book combines an evaluation of different conceptions of the nature of science with an examination of important sociological theorists and frameworks.-- Publisher description
ER  -