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

Reed, Isaac Ariail

ISBN 10: 0226706745 / ISBN 13: 9780226706740

Published by University of Chicago Press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226706745
• ISBN 13: 9780226706740
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: Illustrated.
• Condition: Good

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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.

About the Author

Isaac Ariail Reed is professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia. In addition to Power in Modernity, he is the author of Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences, and the co-editor of Social Theory Now.