Interpretation and Social Knowledge

On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy
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Author: Isaac Ariail Reed ISBN: 9780226706726
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Publication: August 15, 2011
Imprint: University of Chicago Press Language: English
Author: Isaac Ariail Reed
ISBN: 9780226706726
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication: August 15, 2011
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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