Positivism and Sociology (RLE Social Theory): Explaining Social Life: 53 (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory) - Image 1

£100.00

Routledge Positivism and Sociology (RLE Social Theory): Explaining Social Life: 53 (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)

Name: Positivism and Sociology (RLE Social Theory): Explaining Social Life: 53 (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 100.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Same price for 22 weeks. Today is much like next week.

£100 for 154 days straight · last change was Oct 2025

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 634 days • 634 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 634 days • 7 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £98 (232 days, 36.6%)

Price range: £80 - £113

Price levels: 7 different prices over 634 days

Description

Any serious attempt to explain social life has to come to terms with sociology's positivist legacy. It is a heritage on the one hand from the seventeenth-century political arithmeticians and the later moral statisticians who believed that quantification would provide the basis for a dispassionate analysis of social affairs; and on the other hand from the nineteenth-century post-Enlightenment social philosophers who were eager to develop an empirical science of society that would enable them to control social conduct – just as the physical sciences had provided the knowledge to tame nature. Yet every debate about the relation between positivism and sociology is clouded by the diversity of uses of the term 'positivism' – uses that are so varied that some can pronounce positivism dead while others find it still the vital force that dominates sociology. The particular merit of Peter Halfpenny's book is that it makes this diversity of uses its central theme. In order to provide a clear basis from which to assess controversial questions about the contribution of the positivist traditions to sociology, the book reviews twelve different important uses of the term 'positivism' that have emerged at different times since the mid-nineteenth century, when Auguste Comte coined both 'positivism' and 'sociology'. This review is conducted by examining the historical development of the two independent roots of modern sociological positivism – positivist philosophy and statistics – and by analysing logical positivist philosophy, which in many ways defined the course of twentieth century philosophy of the social (as well as the natural) sciences.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1138788058
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 04 August 2014
Listed Since: 21 January 2014

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Positivism and Sociology (RLE Social Theory): Explaining Social Life: 53 (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)

Same price for 22 weeks. Today is much like next week.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Antipositivist Theories of the Sciences: Critical Rationalism, Critical Theory and Scientific Realism: 3 (Sociology of the Sciences - Monographs, 3)

The Essential Comte (RLE Social Theory): Selected from 'Cours de philosophie positive' by Auguste Comte: 19 (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)

Critical Realism, History, and Philosophy in the Social Sciences: 34 (Political Power and Social Theory, 34)

A General View of Positivism (Routledge Revivals)

Causality in Sociological Research: 212 (Synthese Library, 212)

The Worlds of Positivism: A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930

Auguste Comte: Volume 3: An Intellectual Biography (Auguste Comte Intellectual Biography)

Philosophical Foundations of the Three Sociologies (RLE Social Theory): Volume 51 (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)

Auguste Comte (Key Sociologists)

Auguste Comte (Key Sociologists)

The Sociological Tradition

The Sociological Tradition

Key Problems of Sociological Theory (International Library of Sociology)

Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought

Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Second Edition: Formations of Modern Social Thought

The Positive Mind - Central European University Press Book

The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte

The Persistence of the Particular

Principles of Scientific Sociology

Emile Durkheim (The International Library of Essays in Classical Sociology)

Beyond Empiricism: Philosophy of Science in Sociology (Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science)

Nico Stehr: Pioneer in the Theory of Society and Knowledge: 16 (Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, 16)

The History of Sociology in Britain: New Research and Revaluation

Reason of Sociology: George Simmel and Beyond (SAGE Studies in International Sociology)