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

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Author:
Isaac Ariail Reed
ISBN:
9780226706726
Related ISBNs:
9780226706740, 9780226706733
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Pages:
216
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2020-12-24
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2011
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Philosophy, Social Studies, Sociology