Practical Sociology: Post-empiricism and the Reconstruction of Theory and Application

1. Introduction: Theory, Metatheory and Discourse.

2. Concept Formation: Contest and Reconstruction.

3. The Constitution of Society: Agency and Structure.

4. Values in Social Science: Decisions, Justifications and Communities.

5. Models of Applied Social Science: Engineering, Enlightenment, Interaction and Dialogue.

6. Conclusion: Impossible and Possible Sociology.

Notes.

References.

Index.