Download or read book Philosophical Foundations of Social Research Methods written by Malcolm Williams and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'philosophy of social research' is a subset of the philosophy of social science, but also an important subject area spanning methodology and method. The articles in this collection are the best exemplars of key positions in a very wide disciplinary field. Topics covered include science and art in the history of social research, positivism and antipositivism, language and the linguistic turn, realism and anti-realism, theory and theory choice, logic and models, prediction and laws, interpretation, probability and complexity.