{"product_id":"9780335217212","title":"Social Science: 2nd Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA succinct, readable guidediscussing core ideas insocial science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis second edition of this respected andsuccessful text includes essential new materialcovering the following topics:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Postmodern and feminist approaches \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The crisis in social science \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e An overview of the main developments in thephilosophy of the social sciences \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/i\u003e builds on the success of the firstedition and moves the discussions forward andbrings up-to-date the material on the positivistdispute, hermeneutic theory, and the critical conceptionof social science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe main developments examined in this textinclude the positivist dispute (the rise of rationalismand empiricism, positivism, and implicationsof the work of Popper and Kuhn); hermeneutictheory from Weber to Schutz and Taylor; and thecritical conception of social science, as in Marxism,Adorno, and Habermas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/i\u003e will be of strong interest to undergraduatesand postgraduates in the social sciencesas well as to professional researchersworking in the areas of the philosophy of socialscience, the sociology of science and knowledge,and social and political theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerard Delanty\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior lecturer in sociologyat the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e  ","brand":"McGraw-Hill Companies, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49786635878640,"sku":"9780335217212","price":43.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780335217212","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}