Reconciling the Discursive and the Material Dimensions of Social Stability and Social Change: A Critical Retheorisation and Non-syncretic Synthesis of Bhaskar, Foucault, and Althusser

Reconciling the Discursive and the Material Dimensions of Social Stability and Social Change: A Critical Retheorisation and Non-syncretic Synthesis of Bhaskar, Foucault, and Althusser

Sociological explanations for human conduct usually place major ontological and epistemological emphasis upon either discursive or material relations without ever establishing or adequately specifying the validity of this dichotomy. Early texts by the Critical Realist philosopher Roy Bhaskar addres...

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Main Author: Hardy, Nicholas James
Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
Language:en
en
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Aleatory materialism
British nuclear industry
Critical Realism
Emergence
Events
Extra-discursive
Louis Althusser
Michel Foucault
Roy Bhaskar
Social change
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7528

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http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7528

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