Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Introduction to critical realism -- 2 Science and reality -- 3 Conceptual abstraction and causality -- Part II: Methodological implications -- 4 Social structures and human agency -- 5 Generalization, scientific inference, and models for explanatory social science -- 6 Theory in the methodology of social science -- 7 Critical methodological pluralism - intensive and extensive research design and interdisciplinarity -- 8 Social science and practice -- 9 Conclusion -- Glossary -- Index.