{"product_id":"durkheim-bernard-and-epistemology-paperback-softback","title":"Durkheim, Bernard and Epistemology - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis title, first published in 1975, contains two complimentary studies by Paul Q. Hirst: the first based on Claude Bernard’s theory of scientific knowledge, and the second concerning Emile Durkheim’s attempt to provide a philosophical foundation for a scientific sociology in \u003cem\u003eThe Rules of Sociological Method\u003c\/em\u003e. The author’s primary concern is to answer the question: is Durkheim’s theory of knowledge logically consistent and philosophically viable? His principal conclusion is that the epistemology developed in the \u003cem\u003eRules \u003c\/em\u003eis an impossible one and that its inherent contradictions are proof that sociology as it is commonly understood can never be a scientific discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45563918516462,"sku":"9780415847148","price":72.79,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780415847148.jpg?v=1720663654","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/durkheim-bernard-and-epistemology-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}