Titlebook: Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis; Dorothy Emmet,Alasdair MacIntyre Textbook 1970Latest edition Palgrave Macmillan, a divisio

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en the possibility of a revival of Marxist history and its popularisation amongst a new generation within whose ranks will be students and teachers of history. The working class has profoundly changed since Karl Marx’s day or since the 1960s. It is now global, more ethnically diverse, more feminised

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Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences,so, it has been maintained, prevented the social sciences from developing systems of explanatory theory comparable in precision to those offered by the natural sciences and makes debatable the empirical work of theories developed in restricted domains such as economics.

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Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences,on.’ Ernest Nagel and Carl G. Hempel contributed highly stimulating comments on the problem involved, formulated in the careful and lucid way so characteristic of these scholars. Their topic is a controversy which for more than half a century has split not only logicians and methodologists but also

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Knowledge and Interest,mplative attitude which should not only release the sciences from the grip of the illusion that the world is a ready-made universe of facts to be grasped in purely descriptive terms, but also by its own therapeutic powers, lead to ‘a new kind of practice’. In adhering to this traditional concept of

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Methodological Individualism Reconsidered,logy and still appears to haunt the scene. It was, we might say, conceived by Hobbes, who held that ‘it is necessary that we know the things that are to be compounded before we can know the whole compound’ for ‘everything is best understood by its constitutive causes’, the causes of the social compo

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