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Arguments and actions in social theory

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Arguments and actions in social theoryPeter Preston.
Author:	Preston, P. W.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,c2009.
Description:	vii, 189 p. ;23 cm.
Subject:	Social sciencesPhilosophy.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230234178

Arguments and actions in social theory
Preston, P. W.1949-

Arguments and actions in social theory[electronic resource] /Peter Preston. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,c2009. - vii, 189 p. ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Practical Nature of Social Theorizing -- Arguments from Natural Science -- Arguments fromLanguage/Understanding -- Arguments from Political Community -- Language, Tradition and Practice --Bibliography.

Intellectual trajectory is not organized in advance, we do not beginby surveying the intellectual ground before deciding upon a line of enquiry, rather we fall into conversation, our starting points are accidental, our early moves untutored - they are not informed by a systematicknowledge of the available territory, rather they flow from curiosity,we read what strikes us as interesting and discard that which seems dull. This personal idosyncratic aspect to scholarly enquiry is part and parcel of 'doing' social science, not something to be regretted, deniedor avoided. Exploring the philosophy of social science, where claims about the nature, intellectual value and utility of social theorizing are routinely disputed, this book argues that social theorizing comprisesa wide diversity ofsituation-bound attempts to make practical sense of shifting circumstances. Placing theorists within the social world this study shows how theorizing is both bounded and creative, how imagination andcreativity builds upon the resources of tradition and how such an awareness is the basis of dialogue with other traditions, cultures and ways of making sense of the world.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230234178

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230234178doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

177717
Social sciences
--Philosophy.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HM490

Dewey Class. No.: 301

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