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Author Tsilipakos, Leonidas.

Title Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory : taking concepts seriously / by Leonidas Tsilipakos
Published Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (187 pages)
Series Philosophy and Method in the Social Sciences
Philosophy and method in the social sciences.
Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Sociology and Ordinary Language Philosophy: A Dialogue; 2 What Achilles said to Hempel: Unrealistic Restrictions and the Idea of Explanation as a Matter of Form; 3 Ordinary Language Philosophy as Logic; 4 Ontological Confusion in Social Theory; 5 Continuing Ontological Confusion: The Constitution and Application of an Ontological Scheme; 6 Some Problems with 'The Problem of Structure and Agency'; Conclusion; Postscript; References; Index
Summary Making use of the insights and practice of Ordinary Language Philosophy, understood as encompassing the work of Wittgenstein, Ryle, Austin and their followers, Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory reveals the profound logical flaws in some of the central methodological procedures often employed in social theory for dealing with concepts, offering alternative approaches to social scientists and philosophers for tackling the conceptual issues that have so bedevilled social science from its inception
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-169) and index
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Subject Sociology -- Philosophy.
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Social sciences -- Philosophy
Sociology -- Philosophy
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