General Preface (Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods)<br>Preface<br>List of Contributors<br>I. Sociology and Quanitification<br>Defining a Discipline: Sociology and its Philosophical Problems, from Its Classics to 1945<br>(Stephen Turner)<br>Measurement (Joel Michell)<br>The Intersection of Philosophy and Theory Construction: The Problem of the Origin of Elements in a Theory (Jerald Hage)<br>Causal Models in the Social Sciences (James Woodward)<br>II Individualism and Holism<br>Functional Explanation and Evolutionary Social Science (Harold Kinaid)<br>Evolutionary Explanations (Valerie Haines)<br>Holism and Supervenience (Julie Zahle)<br>Levels of the Social (Daniel Little)<br>Rational Choice (Alessandro Pizzorno)<br>III. Anthropology, Culture and Interpretation<br>Ethnography and Culture (Mark Risjord)<br>Categories and Classification in the Social Sciences (Warren Schmaus)<br>Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Approaches (William Outhwaite)<br>The Origins of Ethnomethodology (Michael Lynch)<br>Philosophy of Archaeology: Philosophy in Archaeology (Alison Wylie)<br>IV. Rationality and Normativity<br>Relativism and Historicism (Ian Jarvie)<br>The Problem of Apparently Irrational Beliefs (Steven Lukes)<br>Language and Translation (David Henderson)<br>Practice Theory (Joe Rouse)<br>Naturalism without Fears (Paul Roth)<br>V. Critical Approaches<br>We, Heirs of Enlightenment: Critical Theory, Democracy and Social Science (James Bohman)<br>Race in the Social Sciences (Michael Root)<br>Feminist Anthropology and Sociology: Issues for Social Science (Sharon Crasnow)<br>What's "New" in the Sociology of Knowledge? (John Zammito)<br>Index