Index

Critical Realism, History, and Philosophy in the Social Sciences

ISBN: 978-1-78756-604-0, eISBN: 978-1-78756-603-3

ISSN: 0198-8719

Publication date: 27 July 2018

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(2018), "Index", Critical Realism, History, and Philosophy in the Social Sciences (Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 34), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 159-162. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0198-871920180000034007

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INDEX

Abstract empiricism
, 3–4

Abstract interpretivism
, 3–4

Actualism
, 127

Actualist comparison
, 101

Agency
, 80–83

Aleatory materialism
, 94

Anthropocene
, 75

Anti-essentialism
, 138

Antiutilitarian movement in social sciences (MAUSS)
, 75, 79

Articulatory fixation
, 96, 98, 103, 109

Assemblages
, 90, 91, 104, 107

coherence of assemblages
, 107

comparing and applying
, 108–111

poststructuralism
, 104–105

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
, 109

Autocratic regimes
, 74

Butler, Judith
, 106, 142

Capitalism
, 98

Causation
, 26, 98, 103, 127

causal mechanism
, 27

causal structures
, 100

covering law
, 26

regularity theory of causation
, 25–26

Communication
, 81, 82

Conjunctures
, 91, 92, 99

Althusser, Louis
, 93–96

axes
, 92

comparing and applying
, 108–111

constant conjunctions
, 90

critical realism
, 99–103

reviewing
, 103

Sahlins and Sewell
, 96–99

Context of discovery
, 52

Context of justification
, 53

Contingency
, 145

Convivialism
, 86

Cradle of social science
, 122–124

Critical ethical naturalism (CEN)
, 124–129

Critical realism (CR)
, 5, 6–8, 15, 19, 24, 28, 33–36, 40, 73, 79, 99–103, 124–129

depth realism
, 100

determination of events
, 100

historical implications
, 30

Critical theory
, 11, 75, 79, 133–137, 149

Critique
, 121–122, 134, 137–140

Cultural/culture
, 80–83, 82

features of structural dynamics
, 97

relativism
, 125

Data analysis
, 62–63

Data sampling
, 62

Demi-regularities
, 127, 145

Denaturalization and reflexiity
, 137

Developmental historical idealism
, 77

Developmental sociology
, 76

Divorce
, 57–60, 61–62, 66

research
, 64

Dogmatism
, 49, 54, 65, 69, 133

Double articulation
, 104

Dream thoughts
, 101

Durkheim’s methods
, 124

Durkheim’s social realism
, 124

Emergence
, 32, 101

diachronic emergence
, 32, 37

downward causation
, 5, 36–37

epistemological emergence
, 32

ontological emergence
, 37

relational emergence
, 38

strong emergence
, 32

supervenience
, 41

synchronic emergence
, 32, 33

weak emergence
, 32

Emotional experiences
, 55–56

Essentialism
, 130

Ethics
, 68, 80, 82, 83

Eudemonia
, 76, 79

Eventfulness
, 92, 98

Existentialism
, 79, 139

Fact-value dichotomy. See Value Neutrality

Falsification
, 26, 90

Feminist theory
, 48, 54, 57–64, 82

Fruitfulness
, 66–67

Functionalism
, 24, 83

Gadamer, Hans Georg
, 76

Genealogy
, 122–124

Grand theory
, 29

Habermas, Jurgen
, 75, 82

Hermeneutics
, 78, 82

Historical materialism
, 95

Historical sociology
, 19, 23–24, 31–38

Human flourishing
, 76, 80

Human nature
, 75, 78, 81, 128, 129, 130, 131, 145, 146

Hypercritique
, 75, 76

Induction, problem of
, 26

Instrumentalism
, 52, 54–55, 75

Intersubjectivity
, 81, 82

Judgmental relativism
, 54, 137

Language
, 81

Late modernity
, 74

Legitimacy
, 65–66

Logic of theory
, 13–15

Looping effects
, 110

Marxism
, 76

capitalism
, 93

framework
, 96

Marx’s utopian vision
, 123

structuralism
, 75

theory of “bourgeois revolution”
, 41

Materiality
, 103, 146

Metatheory
, 13–15, 17, 78–80

metareflexivity
, 76, 84, 85

metatheoretical reflexivity
, 18–19

Method of difference and similarity”
, 24–25

Methodological individualism
, 31–38, 81

“Microfoundations”
, 36–37

“Middle-range theories”
, 29

Modernity
, 51

postmodernity
, 74, 84

second postmodernity
, 74

Morphogenesis
, 36, 77, 83

Naturalism
, 78, 121–124, 129

human nature
, 130

ontology
, 131–132

Neo-Critical Realism (NCR)
, 27–28, 29

Neutrality
, 50, 53

Non-observables
, 34

Normativity
, 119, 121

normative authority
, 67

normative classes
, 78, 79

normative professionalism
, 84, 85–86

normative projects
, 140

Ontological/ontology
, 13–15, 78, 83–86

background assumptions
, 16, 58

commitments
, 17

onto-epistemological class
, 78, 79

place of
, 15–17, 20

presupposition neutrality
, 67

Phenomenological hermeneutics
, 78

Philosophical idealism
, 76

Philosophy
, 16, 17, 78

Physicalism
, 41

Politics
, 56, 73

Positivism
, 19, 36, 78, 81, 90

positivist and realist approaches
, 24–31

reduction and emergence
, 31–38

Post-capitalism
, 84, 86

Post-Habermasian moral philosophy
, 81–82

Poststructuralism
, 82, 91, 106

Pragmatism
, 77

Process theories
, 27, 29

Psychoanalysis
, 84, 95

Psychology
, 77

psychological argument
, 56

psychological mechanism
, 51

Quantitative social science
, 3, 62

Queer theory
, 140–150

Quinean holism
, 49

Rational-choice theory
, 31, 34

Realism
, 122–124

realist approaches
, 24–31

realist sociology assumption
, 4–5

depth-realist comparison
, 101

Reconstructive social theory
, 75–81, 82

conjuncture
, 73–74

intersectionality of vulnerabilities
, 74–75

metatheory
, 78–80

social theory
, 80–83

sociological theory
, 83–86

Regularity theory of causation
, 25–26

Regulatory fictions
, 148

Research

conceiving of object of inquiry
, 59–61

data analysis
, 62–63

data sampling
, 62

deciding end of analysis
, 63–64

deciding of data collection
, 61–62

drawing conclusions
, 64

framing research questions
, 58–59

orientation to background interests
, 58

quantitative social science
, 3, 62

research design
, 66

stages
, 57–58

survey research
, 24

Retroduction
, 28

Revolution
, 86

Sahlins’s theory of structure of conjuncture
, 97

Sapere aude formula
, 133

Science
, 8, 50, 51, 52, 53, 68

causal explanations
, 3

research programs
, 65

“the scientific method”
, 3

social sciences
, 78

Self-interpretations
, 61

Skocpol’s theory of social revolutions
, 28, 29, 36

Social change
, 80–83, 107

Social Darwinism
, 36

Social development
, 83

Social formations
, 90, 94

Social pathologies
, 84

Social structures
, 15, 28, 35

structural entities
, 103

structural mechanisms, causal power of
, 101–102

structural theories
, 29–30

Social theory
, 6–8, 9, 10–11, 12, 83–86

abstract empiricism
, 3–4

assumption of realist sociology
, 4–5

“call of crisis”
, 3

contemporary definitions
, 8–12

critical realism
, 6–8

logic of theory, metatheory, and ontology
, 13–15

metatheoretical reflexivity
, 18–19

place of ontology
, 15–17, 20

positivism
, 19

social ontology
, 15–17, 20, 141

theories of middle range
, 4

theory
, 6–8

Sociological explanations
, 29

Sociological positivism
, 27

Symbolic violence
, 82

Thick evaluative concepts
, 60

Threshold
, 107

Tipping points
, 107, 111

Traditional ethics
, 82–83

Traditional family

model
, 61

values
, 58, 68

Transformative theory
, 77, 83, 84

Underdetermination
, 48–49

Value neutrality
, 68, 125

bidirectional influence of facts and values
, 57–64

cognitive values
, 50

evidence for value judgments
, 53–57

legitimate use of value judgments
, 64–69

noncognitive values
, 52–53

orthodox case for value-neutral science
, 49–57

unconditional value
, 68

Weber, Max
, 51, 52, 81