Realist Inquiry in Social Science 1446258858, 9781446258859

A Humanist Science: Values and Ideals in Social Inquiry 9780804779692

This illuminating book provides a reconstruction of social theory that emphasizes its humanist foundations and the centr

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Social Science as Moral Inquiry 9780231890793

Studies the social science of moral inquiry as an attempt to develop a psychology and sociology that would explain the c

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Mixed Methods in Social Inquiry

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The Production of Knowledge: Enhancing Progress in Social Science (Strategies for Social Inquiry) 1108708285, 9781108708289

Whilst a great deal of progress has been made in recent decades, concerns persist about the course of the social science

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Designing Social Inquiry

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Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry 9780691209753

Conventional wisdom has it that the sciences, properly pursued, constitute a pure, value-free method of obtaining knowle

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Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research 9781400821211

While heated arguments between practitioners of qualitative and quantitative research have begun to test the very integr

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The Science of Evaluation: A Realist Manifesto 1446252434, 9781446252437

Evaluation researchers are tasked with providing the evidence to guide programme building and to assess its outcomes. As

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Political and Social Inquiry 0471584037, 9780471584032

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Storytelling Sociology: Narrative as Social Inquiry 9781685854157

A compelling exposition of the narrative turn in sociology—an approach that views lived experience as constructed, at le

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