Interpretation and social knowledge : on the use of theory in the human sciences /

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Author / Creator:Reed, Isaac (Isaac Ariail)
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (194 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11102493
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ISBN:9780226706726
0226706729
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9781283242349
9780226706733
0226706737
9780226706740
0226706745
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Reed, Isaac, (Isaac Ariail). Interpretation and social knowledge. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011 9780226706733
Standard no.:40019858944