In this paper I highlight certain logical and metaphysical issues which arise in the characterisation of functionalism-in particular its ready coherence with a physicalist ontology, its structuralism ...

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This course reviews some of the most important developments in contemporary sociological theory. It examines work in such areas as relational sociology; rational-choice theory and ethnomethodology; ...

ABSTRACT: The difference between a scientific system and the non scientific system is only a matter of forms of rationality: so also the difference between empirical system and non empirical system ...