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

Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences
ISBN-10
0226706729
ISBN-13
9780226706726
Category
Social Science
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
2011-08-15
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Isaac Ariail Reed

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.

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