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

Name: Interpretation and Social Knowledge On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences
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ISBN: 9780226706740

ISBN-10: 0226706745

ISBN-13: 9780226706740

Edition: 2011

Authors: Isaac Ariail Reed

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For the past fifty years anxiety over the problem of naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side pursues the idea of social science as another kind of natural science, while the other radically rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. All of the various developments in social scientific theory since then have reflected this dichotomy between naturalism and postmodernism. Interpretation and Social Knowledgesuggests a third way, reframing this debate and offering a synthetic vision that sets out a new understanding of sociological interpretation. Analyzing the work of writers such as Theda Skocpol, Clifford Geertz, Leela Gandhi, Roy Bhaskar, Foucault, and…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/19/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.19" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

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.



List of Illustrations


Introduction



Knowledge



Reality



Utopia



Meaning



Explanation


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


References


Index