Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences Paperback University of Chicago Press
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Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences Paperback University of Chicago Press

Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences

University of Chicago Press
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Description

For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the other rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. Interpretation and Social Knowledge suggests a different route, offering a way forward for an antinaturalist sociology that overcomes the opposition between interpretation and explanation and uses theory to build concrete, historically specific causal explanations of social phenomena.

Author: Isaac Ariail Reed
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 09/19/2011
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780226706740
ISBN10: 0226706745
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Social
- Philosophy | Epistemology

About the Author

Isaac Ariail Reed is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and coeditor of Culture, Society, and Democracy: The Interpretive Approach and Meaning and Method: The Cultural Approach to Sociology.