Sociology as a Human Science

Essays on Interpretation and Causal Pluralism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

1 829 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Carefully considering all manner of arguments in metatheory and epistemology and moving towards a program of interpretive explanation focused on culture and power, Reed places sociology at the center of debates about knowledge production across the humanities and social sciences.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-04-26
Mått148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt496 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCultural Sociology
Antal sidor264
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031183560

Tillhör följande kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Isaac Ariail Reed is Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of Political and Social Thought in the Department of Sociology and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, USA. He is the author of Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences and Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies, and the co-editor of Social Theory Now and The New Pragmatist Sociology: Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy.

Chapter 1. Introduction – Sociology as a Human Science: An Unfinished Revolution.- Chapter 2. Epistemology Contextualized: Social Scientific Knowledge in a Post-Positivist Era.- Chapter 3. Justifying Sociological Knowledge: From Realism to Interpretation.- Chapter 4. Formation Stories and Causality in Sociology (with Daniel Hirschman).- Chapter 5. Ratio via machina: Three Standards of Mechanistic Explanation in Sociology (with Natalie B. Aviles).- Chapter 6. Meaning and Modularity: The Multivalence of “Mechanism” in Sociological Explanation (with Carly R. Knight).- Chapter 7. Theorizing and the Unsettlement of Communities of Inquiry in the Social Sciences (with Mayer Zald).- Chapter 8. What is Interpretive Explanation in Sociohistorical Analysis?.