Interpretation and social knowledge : on the use of theory in the human sciences /
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| Author / Creator: | Reed, Isaac (Isaac Ariail) |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011. |
| Description: | 194 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy 2 is paperback. |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8464233 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 194 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226706733 0226706737 9780226706740 0226706745 |
