Contributions to Social Ontology Book

Figures and tables     ix
Contributors     xi
Acknowledgements     xiv
Introduction: ontology, philosophy and the social sciences   John Latsis   Clive Lawson   Nuno Martins     1
Ontology and social theory     15
The ontological status of subjectivity: the missing link between structure and agency   Margaret S. Archer     17
Technology, technological determinism and the transformational model of social activity   Clive Lawson     32
Ontological theorising and the assumptions issue in economics   Stephen Pratten     50
Wittgenstein and the ontology of the social: some Kripkean reflections on Bourdieu's 'Theory of Practice'   Lorenzo Bernasconi-Kohn     68
Deducing natural necessity from purposive activity: the scientific realist logic of Habermas' theory of communicative action and Luhmann's systems theory   Margaret Moussa     89
'Under-labouring' for ethics: Lukacs's critical ontology   Mario Duayer   Joao Leonardo Medeiros     102
Ontology and philosophy     125
Quine and the ontological turn in economics   John Latsis     127
Tracking down the transcendental argument and the synthetic a priori: chasing fairies or serious ontological business?   DavidTyfield     142
Re-examining Bhaskar's three ontological domains: the lessons from emergence   Dave Elder-Vass     160
Real, invented or applied? Some reflections on scientific objectivity and social ontology   Eleonora Montuschi     177
Theorising ontology   Roy Bhaskar     192
Ontology and applied research     205
Freedom, possibility and ontology: rethinking the problem of 'competitive ascent' in the Caribbean   Patricia Northover   Michaeline Crichlow     207
On the ontology of international norm diffusion   Lynn Savery     231
Realist social theorising and the emergence of state educational systems   Tone Skinningsrud     252
The educational limits of critical realism? Emancipation and rational agency in the compulsory years of schooling   Brad Shipway     273
Economics and autism: why the drive towards closure?   John Lawson     293
Applying critical realism: re-conceptualising the emergent English early music performer labour market   Nicholas Wilson     304
Index     324