Social Science Gerard Delanty		$20.00 paper ISBN: 0-8166-3127-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3127-8 $60.00 cloth ISBN: 0-8166-3126-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3126-1
An ambitious and wide-ranging text about the debates of social science. This concise and comprehensive volume provides an accessible overview of the main debates on the sociology and philosophy of the social sciences. Exploring the changing conceptions of social science from the sixteenth century to today, Delanty argues how this group of disciplines is recovering its role as the critical voice of modernity. He examines the positivist dispute from postempiricist perspectives and contends that the concept of social science emerging today is one that involves a synthesis of radical constructivism and critical realism. Gerard Delanty is senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK. 160 pages | 5 5/16 x 8 1/2 | 1997 Concepts in Social Thought Series