TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tsilipakos,Leonidas
TI  - Clarity and confusion in social theory: taking concepts seriously 
T2  - Philosophy and method in the social sciences
SN  - 9781472432414
AV  - HM585 .T76 2015
U1  - 301.01 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Farnham, Surrey, England
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-169) and index; 	Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Sociology and Ordinary Language Philosophy: A Dialogue; 2 What Achilles said to Hempel: Unrealistic Restrictions and the Idea of Explanation as a Matter of Form; 3 Ordinary Language Philosophy as Logic; 4 Ontological Confusion in Social Theory; 5 Continuing Ontological Confusion: The Constitution and Application of an Ontological Scheme; 6 Some Problems with 'The Problem of Structure and Agency'; Conclusion; Postscript; References; Index
N2  - Making use of the insights and practice of Ordinary Language Philosophy, understood as encompassing the work of Wittgenstein, Ryle, Austin and their followers, Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory reveals the profound logical flaws in some of the central methodological procedures often employed in social theory for dealing with concepts, offering alternative approaches to social scientists and philosophers for tackling the conceptual issues that have so bedevilled social science from its inception
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