Recent critiques treat humanism as a mistaken value framework. Indeed, the concept of human nature is in fact essential for sociology, but is often being denied

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A general critique of sociology, particularly sociology in the United States, from a critical realist perspective.

Sociological Realism presents a clear and updated discussion of the main tenets and issues of social theory, written by some of the top scholars within the crit