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Tables of Contents for The Foundations of Social Research
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Introduction: the research process
1
17
Four elements
2
8
What about ontology?
10
2
In all directions
12
2
The great divide
14
4
Positivism: the march of science
18
24
Positivism
19
10
Post-positivism
29
13
Constructionism: the making of meaning
42
24
The construction of meaningful reality
42
10
`Social' constructionism
52
5
Conformism or critique?
57
6
Realism and relativism
63
3
Interpretivism: for and against culture
66
21
Roots of interpretivism
67
5
Symbolic interactionism
72
6
Phenomenology
78
9
Interpretivism: the way of hermeneutics
87
25
Historical origins
88
2
The hermeneutic mode of understanding
90
2
Modern hermeneutics
92
20
Critical inquiry: the Marxist heritage
112
27
Karl Marx
115
7
Marxism after Marx
122
3
The Institute for Social Research
125
5
Critical theory
130
9
Critical inquiry: contemporary critics & contemporary critique
139
21
Jurgen Habermas and communicative reason
140
7
Paulo Freire's pedagogy of the oppressed
147
10
Critical inquiry today
157
3
Feminism: re-visioning the man-made world
160
23
The many feminisms
162
8
Feminist `epistemology'
170
6
Feminine thought or feminist values?
176
7
Postmodernism: crisis of confidence or moment of truth?
183
31
`Post' what?
183
12
(Post-) structuralism
195
8
The character of post-structuralism
203
7
Back to the postmodern
210
4
Conclusion
214
3
Notes
217
4
Bibliography
221
12
Index
233