A Treatise on Social Theory

by W.G. Runciman

Book Overview

In this first volume of a projected trilogy, the author argues that a methodology adequate to solve the long-standing debate over the status of the social as against the natural sciences can be constructed in terms of a fourhold distinction between the reportage, explanation, description and evaluation of human behaviour. The distinction rests on an analysis of the scope and nature of social theory which is not only original in conception but far-reaching...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521272513
• ISBN13: 9780521272513
• Release Date: March 1983
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"