Realismo crítico : um programa de pesquisa para as Ciências Sociais
By: HAMLIN, Cynthia Lins
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ArticlePublisher: Rio de Janeiro : IUPERJ, 2000Subject(s): Philosophy of social sciences | Realism | NaturalismOnline resources: Acesso Dados - Revista de Ciências Sociais 43, 2, p. 373-398Abstract: The article describes critical realism as a philosophical approach that stresses some themes central to all sociological thought: the relation between philosophy and sociology; the notion of cause; the problem of naturalism; the relation between concepts, models, and reality; the relation between agency and structure, and so on. It is further argued that in positing the non-dissolution of the ontological and epistemological dimensions of knowledge, critical realism may represent a viable alternative to the dead-ends of conventionalism and skepticism found in the positivist and pragmatist approaches.
The article describes critical realism as a philosophical approach that stresses some themes central to all sociological thought: the relation between philosophy and sociology; the notion of cause; the problem of naturalism; the relation between concepts, models, and reality; the relation between agency and structure, and so on. It is further argued that in positing the non-dissolution of the ontological and epistemological dimensions of knowledge, critical realism may represent a viable alternative to the dead-ends of conventionalism and skepticism found in the positivist and pragmatist approaches.
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