New Rules of Sociological Method : a Positive Critique of Interpretative Sociologies

Giddens, Anthony

ISBN 10: 0465050832 / ISBN 13: 9780465050833

Published by New York : Basic Books, 1976

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Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 192 pages; Description: 192 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Sociology - Methodology. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Rules of Sociological Method : a Positive Critique of Interpretative Sociologies
• Publisher: New York : Basic Books
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465050832
• ISBN 13: 9780465050833
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

This is a new and revised edition of a book which has already established itself as a basic text in social theory.

The first section of the work provides a concise critical analysis of some leading schools of thought in social philosophy, giving particular attention to phenomenology, ethnomethodology and Wittgensteinian thought. Giddens concentrates primarily upon the implications of these various perspectives for an account of human action and its intelligibility. An `action approach' on its own, however, will not do; in human social life, action and structure presuppose one another. The author therefore moves on to provide a series of concepts relevant to understanding the production and reproduction of society. The book concludes with a succinct statement of some `new rules of sociological method'.

Representing the first, and most trenchant, exposition of the principles of structuration theory, this edition also contains a substantial new Introduction in which Giddens replies to some of the more persistent criticisms made of the original version and also addresses some important issues originally discussed only in a cursory way.

About the Author

Tony Giddens is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science.