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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1992. Trade Paperback. As New. This book argues that sociology has not freed itself from the influence of philosophy, specifically from the search for certainty; the authors criticize sociology for its formalism and argue that to regain its radical and critical edge it must return to and develop a comparative and historical approach; in Part I the authors trace formalism to central positions in Western philosophy and examine its impact on historiography, evolutionary social thought, and positivist sociology; in Part II they examine the tensions between formalism and social theory in the work of Levi Strauss and Habermas; in Part III they compare modernization theory to the more recent discussions of modernity and postmodernity; the book ends with a discussion of alternative, more sociological accounts of rationality and scientific knowledge which form the basis of a non-formalist, comparative, and historical sociology (pictorial black & white cover)
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- Title The Uncertain Science
- Author Ahmed Gurnah
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 224
- Publisher Routledge, London ; New York
- Date 1992
- ISBN 9780415080231
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The Uncertain Science: Criticism of Sociological Formalism
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