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Martin Shaw 

Marxism and Social Science: 

The Roots of Social Knowledge

London: Pluto Press 1975 (out of print)

El Marxismo y las Ciencias Sociales, translated by Marco Antonio Pulido, Mexico City: Nueva Imagen 1978

Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction

1 Social Knowledge in the Capitalist Mode of Production: the nature of intellectual categories; the role of knowledge in capitalist production; the social sciences.

2 Production and the State: The Uses of Empirical Social Science: social science in industry; social science, social reform and the state; the social basis of research techniques.

3 Higher Education: The Academic Organisation of Social Knowledge: the expansion of the academic social sciences; the academic structure; the new capitalist penetration.

4 Ideology: The Role of Sociology in Bourgeois Thought: the framework of ideology; the role of sociology; methodological dilemmas.

5 Crisis: Towards Revolutionary Theory and Practice: the coming crisis?; radical and 'marxist' alternatives; theory and practice.

References; Index

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