Sociological Realism (Paperback)

PART 1: SOCIAL ONTOLOGY

Ch. 1. Andrew Collier, The Social Ontology of Critical Realism

Ch. 2. Maurizio Ferraris, ‘In the understanding of the existing state of affairs

its negation is included’: A comment on Collier

Ch. 3. Riccardo Prandini, Transcendental Realism and Critical Naturalism in

Roy Bhaskar: the return of ontology in scientific

social research

PART 2: SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

Ch. 4. Margaret S. Archer, Morphogenesis: Realism’s Explanatory Framework

Ch. 5. Andrea M. Maccarini, Towards a New European Sociology. The

Morphogenetic Approach between Social

Analysis and Grand Theory

Ch. 6. Pierpaolo Donati, Critical Realism, as viewed by Relational Sociology

PART 3 : METHODOLOGY/EPISTEMOLOGY

Ch. 7. Douglas V. Porpora, Causality: Realist methods in Sociology

Ch. 8. Emmanuele Morandi, The future is behind us. Aristotleian causality

and sociological realism