The Leading eBooks Store Online
for your Apple or Android device, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Marxism and Realism
A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social
Add to cart
US$ 41.95
(+ tax)
Preview (read now)
Add to my own site
Buy multiple copies
Give this ebook to a friend
Add to my wishlist
Author's page
Publisher's page
Devices
- iPad
- Smart phones
- PC
- e-readers with Adobe Digital Editions installed
- Mac
See the full list
Available Devices
X
This book is available for the following devices:
- iPad
- Windows
- Mac
- Sony Reader
- Cool-er Reader
- Nook
- Kobo Reader
- iRiver Story
- Palm-based devices
- Windows Mobile PDAs and phones
- Symbian-based (Nokia etc) phones
- Blackberry
- iLiad
- eBookMan
- Cybook and other ebook reader devices (excluding Kindle)
File Formats
Download: PDF or MobiPocket.
You can also read this book online in eb20 format without having to download anything.
You can also read this book online in eb20 format without having to download anything.
Permissions
Printing
Copy/Paste
Read Aloud
Printing
Copy/Paste
Read Aloud
more
This book rethinks Marx's sociology as a form of realist social theory, extending Roy Bhaskar's philosophical realism into the social sciences. The book puts forward an anti-reductive ontology of society, identifying a stratified social world in which individuals, practices and structures are the key levels. Within this framework the key task of realist social theory is to investigate the dialectical interplay between these key levels in shaping historical processes and systemic outcomes. By constructing historical materialism as realist social theory it becomes possible to resolve many long standing dilemmas in Marxist discourse, such as voluntarism versus determinism, humanism versus economism and agency versus structure. Social realism provides the means to theorise the interface between subject and system and/or individual and society which reveals the emergent nature of social systems.
The book also argues that realism requires a thorough materialistic application in order to avoid the residual idealism or empiricist pluralism in social analysis of postmoderism or neo-Weberian analysis, both of which are contested here. In contrast this book argues that social systems are best grasped as being shaped in the interface between specific kinds of structural and interactional mechanisms, nameley between the forces and relations of production, base and superstructure, and social labour and class struggle.
Routledge; November 2000
337 pages; ISBN 9780203186114
Read online, or download in secure PDF format or MobiPocket
337 pages; ISBN 9780203186114
Read online, or download in secure PDF format or MobiPocket
Subject categories
ISBNs
9781134562213
9781134562206
9780415236225
9780203186114
0203186117
