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"In its second edition, Method in Social Science was widely praised for its penetrating analysis of central questions in social science discourse. This revised edition contains a new preface with suggestions for further readings and a bibliography. The book is intended for students and researchers familiar with social science but having little or no previous experiences of philosophical and methodological discussion, and for those who are interested in realism and method."--Jacket.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- AUTHOR'S NOTE -- CHAPTER ONE The Women Founders of the Social Sciences -- CHAPTER TWO Women and the Emergence of Empiricism -- CHAPTER THREE From the Enlightenment to the French Revolution -- CHAPTER FOUR Women as Methodologists in the Nineteenth Century -- CHAPTER FIVE Women as Missing Persons in Methodology -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Pragmatism and critical theory share a practical and pluralist orientation to social inquiry. On this account, social inquiry is practical not simply by being instrumentally useful but by being oriented toward the realisation of normative ideals, most especially those of democracy. Central to such an enterprise is the relationship between social facts and norms, where facts are understood in the Deweyean sense of a `problematic situation' that contains factors that both inhibit and enable the realisation of normative ideals. Social facts in this sense can best be analysed by `multiperspectival theories' that take into account all the dimensions of the problem as well as the perspectives of all relevant actors. When understood as practical social inquiry, a multiperspectival International Relations theory could contribute to the task of realising new democratic possibilities, especially now given the `fact' of uneven globalisation.

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