Realism and Social Science

PART ONE: INTRODUCING CRITICAL REALISM/Introduction/Key Features of Critical Realism in Practice/A Brief Introduction/PART TWO: POSTMODERN-REALIST ENCOUNTERS/Introduction/Realism for Sceptics/Postmodernism and the Three `PoMo' Flips/Essentialism Social Constructionism and Beyond/PART THREE: Social Science and Space/Introduction/Space and Social Theory/Geohistorical Explanation and Problems of Narrative/PART FOUR: CRITICAL REALISM: FROM CRITIQUE TO NORMATIVE THEORY/Introduction/Critical Realism and the Limits to Critical Social Science/Ethics Unbound/For a Normative Turn in Social Theory