Sociology 915

Philosophy of (Social) Sciences

Course Materials 2004

Reading Interrogations

1. General Perspectives I: Empiricism and Positivism

2. General Perspectives II: Critical Realism

3. General Perspectives III: Feminism and Standpoint Epistemologies

4. Concept Formation

5. Methodological Individualism

6. Mechanisms

7. Causal Primacy

8. Methodological Pluralism

9. Functional explanation

10. Logics of Ethnographic Methods: grounded theory vs extended case method

11. Structure & Agency

Seminar Agendas

1. General Perspectives I: Empiricism and Positivism

2. General Perspectives II: Critical Realism

3. General Perspectives III: Feminism and Standpoint Epistemologies

4. Concept Formation

5. Methodological Individualism

6. Mechanisms