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1、MarxismandRealismThisbookrethinksMarx’ssociologyasaformofrealistsocialtheory,extendingRoyBhaskar’sphilosophicalrealismintothesocialsciences.Thebookputsforwardananti-reductiveontologyofsociety,identifyingastratifiedsocialworldinwhichindividuals,practicesands
2、tructuresarethekeylevels.Withinthisframework,thekeytaskofrealistsocialtheoryistoinvestigatethedialecticalinterplaybetweenthesekeylevelsinshapinghistoricalprocessesandsystemicoutcomes.Byconstructinghistoricalmaterialismasrealistsocialtheory,itbecomespossible
3、toresolvemanylong-standingdilemmasinMarxistdiscourse,suchasvoluntarismversusdeterminism,humanismversuseconomismandagencyversusstructure.Socialrealismprovidesthemeanstotheorisetheinterfacebetweensubjectandsystem,orindividualandsociety,whichrevealstheemergent
4、natureofsocialsystems.Thebookalsoarguesthatrealismrequiresathoroughgoingmaterialisticapplicationinordertoavoidtheresidualidealismandempiricistpluralisminsocialanalysisofmostmajorschoolsofsociologicalthought.Incontrast,thisbookarguesthatsocialsystemsarebestg
5、raspedasbeingshapedattheinterfacebetweenspecifickindsofstructuralandinteractionalmechanisms,namelybetweentheforcesandrelationsofproduction,baseandsuperstructure,andsociallabourandclassstruggle.SeanCreavenhastaughtsociologyandsocialpolicyattheUniversityofPly
6、mouthandcompletedadoctorateattheUniversityofWarwick.RoutledgeStudiesinCriticalRealismCriticalrealismisoneofthemostinfluentialnewdevelopmentsinthephilosophyofscienceandinthesocialsciences,providingapowerfulalternativetopositivismandpost-modernism.Thisseriesw
7、illexplorethecriticalrealistpositioninphilosophyandacrossthesocialsciences.1MarxismandRealismAmaterialisticapplicationofrealisminthesocialsciencesSeanCreavenAlsopublishedbyRoutledge:CRITICALREALISM:INTERVENTIONSAserieseditedbyMargaretArcher,RoyBhaskar,Andre
8、sCollier,TonyLawsonandAlanNorrieCriticalRealismEssentialreadingsEditedbyMargaretArcher,RoyBhaskar,AndresCollier,TonyLawsonandAlanNorrieThePossibilityofNaturalismAphilosophicalcritiqueofthecontemporaryh
