Contributions to social ontology

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Group Author: Lawson Clive.; Latsis John, 1977-; Martins Nuno.
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: London New York
Publication Dates: 2007.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Routledge studies in critical realism ; 15
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xiii, 332 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0415403731 (hbk.)
9780415403733 (hbk.)
Index Number: C0
CLC: C0
Call Number: C0/C764
Contents: "Outcome of a conference organised in Cambridge during the summer of 2004"--Introd.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Ontology, philosophy, and the social sciences / Clive Lawson, John Latsis, Nuno Martins -- The ontological status of subjectivity : the missing link between structure and agency / Margaret S. Archer -- Technology, technological determinism and the transformational model of social activity / Clive Lawson -- Ontological theorising and the assumptions issue in economics / Stephen Pratten -- Wittgenstein and the ontology of the social : some Kripkean reflections on Bourdieu's 'theory of practice' / Lorenzo Bernasconi-Kohn -- Deducing natural necessity from purposive activity : the scientific realist logic of Habermas's theory of communicative action and Luhmann's systems theory / Margaret Moussa -- 'Under-labouring' for ethics : Lukács's critical ontology / Mário Duayer and João Leonardo Medeiros -- Quine and the ontological turn in economics / John Latsis -- Tracking down the transcendental argument and the synthetic a priori : chasing fairies or serious ontological business / David Tyfield -- Re-examining Bhaskar's three ontological domains : the lessons from emergence / Dave Elder-Vass -- Real, invented, or applied? : some reflections on scientific objectivity and social ontology / Eleonora Montuschi -- Theorising ontology / Roy Bhaskar -- Freedom, possibility and ontology : rethinking the problem of 'competitive ascent' in the Caribbean / Patricia Northover and Michaeline Crichlow -- On the ontology of international norm diffusion / Lynn Savery -- Realist social theorising and the emergence of state educational systems / Tone Skinningsrud -- The educational limits of critical realism? : emancipation and rational agency in the compulsory years of schooling / Brad Shipway -- Economics and autism : why the drive towards closure? / John Lawson -- Applying critical realism : re-conceptualising the emergent early music performer labour market / Nicholas Wilson.