Sociological Reasoning: Towards a Past-Modern Sociology

by Rob Stones

Book Overview

While sociological modernists were outrageously presumptious in their claims for sociological knowledge, postmodernists have gone to another extreme in claiming that it has no more truth status than fiction. Critical of both positions, Sociological Reasoning develops an original typology of approaches to social scientific theory and research which is distinguished by its openness and reflexive awareness of rhetorical and methodological aspects of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333589297
• ISBN13: 9780333589298
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"