Table of Contents

PART ONE: METATHEORY: GROUNDING METHOD
Introduction
What is Critical Theory?
Foundations of Metatheory
Between Subjectivism and Objectivism
Postempiricist Critiques of Positivism and Empiricism
PART TWO: CRITICAL THEORY AS A RESEARCH PROGRAM
Early Critical Theory as a Research Program
An Historical Introduction
Postempiricist Metatheory and the Human Sciences
Interim Developments
The Metatheory of Critical Theory
Beyond Objectivism and Relativism
Contemporary Critical Theory as a Resarch Program
Giddens and Habermas
PART THREE: CRITICAL THEORY AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH
Deconstructing the Conventional Discourse of Methodology
Quantitative versus Qualitative Methods
Non-Empirical Methods
Reflexive Procedures
Empirical Procedures in Critical Research
Contexts of Critical Empirical Research
Critical Social Science and Society
Theory and Practice