Social evolution and sociological categories -

Paul Q. Hirst

George Allen & Unwin

1976

136 páginas

4h 32m

ISBN-10: 0043000657

This book is concerned with the nature of classification in the social sciences. Its thesis is that classifications are dependent upon and are derived from theoretical explanations. Classification is not a theoretically neutral typification or ordering of social forms. This is because the objects classified - societies, social institutions - are not given to knowledge independently of the theories which construct them and because the categories of classification are themselves the products of theories.