William Outhwaite
William Outhwaite
William Outhwaite, born 1949, studied at the Universities of Oxford and Sussex and is Professor of Sociology at the University of Newcastle. He is the author of Understanding Social Life: The Method Called Verstehen, Allen & Unwin, 1975, second edition Jean Stroud, 1986; Concept Formation in Social Science, Routledge, 1983; New Philosophies of Social Science: Realism, Hermeneutics and Critical Theory, Macmillan, 1987; Habermas. A Critical Introduction, Polity Press, 1994, The Future of Society, Blackwell, 2006) and (with Larry Ray) Social Theory and Postcommunism, Blackwell, 2005). He edited The Habermas Reader, Polity Press, 1996; (with Tom Bottomore) The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Social Thought, Blackwell, 1993; The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought, Blackwell, 1993; (with Luke Martell) The Sociology of Politics, Edward Elgar, 1998, and (with Margaret Archer) Defending Objectivity, Routledge 2004. He is currently working on a book on society and culture in contemporary Europe.
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