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Meaning and Method: Some Recent Work in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Martin Hollis
Martin Hollis
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University of East Anglia
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Philosophy , Volume 55 , Issue 212 , April 1980 , pp. 239 - 248
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1980

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References

1 Giddens, Anthony deploys this trio to great effect in New Rules of Sociological Method: A Positive Critique of Interpretative Sociologies (London: Hutchinson, 1976)Google Scholar. See also his Central Problems in Social Theory (London: Macmillan, 1979).Google Scholar

2 Dallmayr, Fred R. and McCarthy, Thomas A. (eds), Understanding and Social Enquiry (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977), 77.Google Scholar

3 Phenomenology and the Social World: The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and its Relation to the Social World (London: Routledge, 1977).Google Scholar

4 ‘The Emergence of Existential Thought’ in Douglas, Jack D. and Johnson, John M. (eds), Existential Sociology (Cambridge University Press, 1977), 78, and the footnote on p. 299.Google Scholar

5 Loc. cit., 1.

6 Brown, Richard H., A Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 1977).Google Scholar

7 Ibid., 230, his italics.

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11 The perils of this balancing act are usefully discussed by Hawthorn, Geoffrey in Enlightenment and Despair: A History of Sociology (Cambridge University Press, 1976)Google Scholar, where it is shown how they shape the enterprise of writing a history of social thought.

12 Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.

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16 Cambridge University Press, 1979.