| Preface to the Second Edition | viii |
| Preface and Acknowledgements | ix |
| Introduction: Challenges for Social Science | 1 |
| 1 Positivism, Science and the Politics of Knowledge | 10 |
| 2 Hermeneutics and Interpretation: The Search for Meaning | 41 |
| 3 The Dialectical Imagination: Marxism, Critique and Emancipation | 63 |
| 4 Communication and Pragmatism: Habermas, Apel and the Renewal of Critical Social Science | 81 |
| 5 Deconstructionism and Postmodernism: Implications of the Cultural Turn | 103 |
| 6 Return of the Actor: The Reflexive Turn and Feminist Standpoint Epistemology | 119 |
| 7 Constructivism and Realism | 136 |
| 8 Social Science and Public Discourse | 153 |
| Bibliography | 174 |
| Index | 189 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Social Science: Philosophical and Methodological Foundations.
Contributors: Gerard Delanty - Author.
Publisher: Open University Press.
Place of publication: Maidenhead, England.
Publication year: 2005.
Page number: vii.
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