Listen and read

Step into an infinite world of stories

Read and listen as much as you want
Over 950 000 titles
Exclusive titles + Storytel Originals
Easy to cancel anytime

Try now

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

Try now

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
ISBN: 9780226706726

By
- Isaac Ariail Reed
Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press

Try now

Language: English
Format
Category: Non-Fiction

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.

Release date

Ebook: 31 May 2024