Table of contents : KEY CONCEPTS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL RESEARCH- FRONT COVER KEY CONCEPTS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL RESEARCH COPYRIGHT CONTENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR INTRODUCTION CAUSALITY COMPLEXITY CONTINGENCY AND NECESSITY EMPIRICISM EPISTEMOLOGY ETHICS AND MORALITY EXPERIMENTS EXPLANATION FALSIFICATION FEMINISM FUNCTIONALISM GENERALISATION AND LAWS HYPOTHESIS(ES) IDEALISM INDIVIDUALISM AND HOLISM INDUCTION INTERPRETATION AND MEANING LANGUAGE LOGIC AND TRUTH MATERIALISM MECHANISMS AND MODELS OBJECTIVITY – SUBJECTIVITY OBSERVATION ONTOLOGY POSITIVISM POSTMODERNISM PRAGMATISM PROBABILITY RATIONALITY REALISM RELATIVISM SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM STATISTICS THEORY TIME