Pusey's 'Middle Australia' -- Weedon's 'poststructuralist feminism' -- Explanations in the social sciences -- 6 Values, ethics and the social sciences -- Weber on values and the social sciences -- Weber's second argument on values -- Humanist ethics in our culture today -- Weber's influence today - an example -- Social science and ethics in practice -- Summarizing genre conventions -- Flyvbjerg's view -- Weberian and humanist ethics -- 7 Two examples of humanist ethics -- Aristotle -- Marx -- The relevance of this view of ethics -- 8 Ethics for social scientists today -- How does Marx's theory look now? -- Aggression and human nature -- Two responses from social theory -- Deep Ecology and humanist environmentalism -- Overview -- 9 Inequality, exploitation and gender -- Inequality - a humanist interpretation -- How women 'choose' their role -- Second-wave understandings of inequality -- The housewife role as exploitation -- What is the site of household exploitation? -- A cross-cultural feminist analysis? -- The Munduruçu as a patriarchal society -- The puzzle of patriarchy -- Understanding inequality - a humanist account -- 10 Social class -- Weber's account of class and status -- Marx's theory of class -- The hidden humanism of the Marxist account -- Problems with Mandel's version -- The humanist collapse of key terms -- In summary -- The invention and persistence of social class -- The global class system today -- As mediated exploitation -- Racism, conquest and sexuality -- 11 Bourdieu and humanist realism -- Relations and substances -- Agents and social space -- Social reproduction and practice -- Different social spaces, changes in social space -- Social action in a stable social space -- Habitus and consciousness -- The cultural arbitrary, interest and illusio -- Bourdieu as a class theorist -- Final words -- References -- Index