Social Ontology in Critical Realism

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Tohidinasab, Zeinab | 2012

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 42602 (42)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Philosophy of Science
Advisor(s): Afrough, Emad
Abstract:
The philosophers of social sciences, in addition to epistemological questions-the questions about our knowledge of the social world- implicitly or explicitly, consider ontological issues: the questions about the nature of social world (society, structures and relations, people and actions). In Critical Realism, ontology and epistemology are linked. It means that what it is awarded, it is crucial that knowledge can be gained from it. This school, with a critique of Positivism and Hermeneutics, tries to authenticate ontological arguments and by reconstruction of concepts like causality, necessity, structure and stratification reality, forms the realist ontology and offers a novel solution to the traditional problem raised in the social sciences, individual/society or structure/action.In this thesis, at the first, I will try to review positivism and hermeneutics, as two main rivals of critical realism, and then I will study the viewpoints of some of the critical realists about social ontology
Keywords:
Ontology ; Causality ; Stratification ; Critical Realism ; Empirical Realism

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