Key concepts in the philosophy of social research - Williams, Malcolm, 1953- (Los Angeles : SAGE, 2016)
Causality -- Complexity -- Contingency and Necessity -- Empiricism -- Epistemology -- Ethics and Morality -- Experiments -- Explanation -- Falsification -- Feminism -- Functionalism -- Generalisation and Laws -- Hypothesis (es) -- Idealism -- Individualism and Holism -- Induction -- Interpretation and Meaning -- Language -- Logic and Truth -- Materialism -- Mechanisms and Models -- Objectivity -- Subjectivity -- Observation -- Ontology -- Positivism -- Postmodernism -- Pragmatism -- Probability -- Rationality -- Realism -- Relativism -- Social Constructionism -- Statistics -- Theory.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Social sciences -- Research -- Philosophy; Sociology -- Research -- Philosophy