The Realist Image in Social Science.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of ReviewsPublished 1 May 1991
Peter T. Manicas, Derek Layder
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Acknowledgements - Introduction - The Possibility of Realism - Epistemology and Levels of Discourse - Realism and Validity Claims - Causality, Acausality and the Implicate Order - Behaviour and Social Ontology - The Language of Social Analysis - The Prospects for Realism - Appendix: The Philosophical Bogeyman - References - Index
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Social SciencesBusiness, Management and Accounting