@article{1440936,
      recid = {1440936},
      author = {Bar-El, Eliran,},
      title = {Multiplitism : set theory and sociology /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume) :},
      abstract = {This book presents a set theoretical approach to  sociological research. It revisits existing sociological  approaches and discusses their limitations, before  suggesting an alternative. While the existing canonical  approaches of Positivism, Conflictualism, and Pragmatism  are based on biology, history, and physics, respectively,  the set theoretical approach is based on mathematics.  Utilising its philosophical exploration delineated by Alain  Badiou, the book further translates his work into the field  of social science. The result of this translation is termed  Multiplitism, which evades the limiting contradictions of  existing approaches. Drawing on the mathematical notion of  set and relating it to recent sociological turns such as  the relational and the ontological, the book proposes a  scale-relativity through which the researcher (as subject)  and the researched (as object) are integrated. The book  will be of interest to social scientists, particularly  social theorists and advanced level students. Eliran Bar-El  is a sociologist of knowledge based at the University of  Cambridge where he recently completed his PhD.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1440936},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87052-2},
}