Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education by Grant Banfield

Author:Grant Banfield [Banfield, Grant]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781317411499
Google: CuePCgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-09-16T05:59:35+00:00

Archer’s point is that methodological individualism fails to comprehend the relational dimensions to individual behaviour, and its explanation cannot avoid reference to irreducibly social predicates. Bhaskar put it this way:

… the real problem [for methodological individualists] appears to be not so much that of how one could give an individualistic explanation of social behaviour, but that of how one could ever give a non-social (i.e. strictly individualistic) explanation of individual, at least characteristically human, behaviour! For the predicates designating properties special to persons all presuppose a social context for their employment. A tribesman implies a tribe, the cashing of a cheque a banking system.

(Bhaskar, 1998a: 28)

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