| Durkheim, Bernard and Epistemology Contributor(s): Hirst, Paul Q. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415847141 ISBN-13: 9780415847148 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Epistemology - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 121 |
| Series: Routledge Library Editions: Emile Durkheim |
| Physical Information: 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This title, first published in 1975, contains two complimentary studies by Paul Q. Hirst: the first based on Claude Bernard's theory of scientific knowledge, and the second concerning Emile Durkheim's attempt to provide a philosophical foundation for a scientific sociology in The Rules of Sociological Method. The author's primary concern is to answer the question: is Durkheim's theory of knowledge logically consistent and philosophically viable? His principal conclusion is that the epistemology developed in the Rules is an impossible one and that its inherent contradictions are proof that sociology as it is commonly understood can never be a scientific discipline. |