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• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 19 September 2011

This book explores the debates caused by anxiety over naturalism and offers a way forward for an antinaturalist sociology that overcomes the opposition between interpretation and explanation and used theory

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 15 August 2011

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

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 25 September 2019

This book discusses the question of whether legal interpretation is a scientific activity. The law’s dependency on language, at least for the usual communication purposes, not only makes legal

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
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• Release Date : 16 June 1987

In succinct and engaging fashion Michael Walzer demystifies the activity of the social critic, providing a philosophical framework for understanding social criticism as social practice.

• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
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• Release Date : 16 June 2011

Humans have an extraordinary capability to combine different types of information in a single meaningful interpretation. The quickness with which interpretation processes evolve suggests the existence of a uniform procedure

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 21 February 1990

Conventional wisdom has it that the sciences, properly pursued, constitute a pure, value-free method of obtaining knowledge about the natural world. In light of the social and normative dimensions of

• Publisher : SUNY Press
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• Release Date : 01 July 1993

Henderson examines the foundations of an analytic social science approach to develop a well-integrated account of the human sciences, focusing on the pivotal notions of interpretation and explanation. The author

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 07 May 2009

'Interpretation' is used as an umbrella for bringing together a wide range of concepts and developments in the philosophy of social science that provide the foundation for clear thinking about

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 04 March 2015

Exceptionally clear and well-written chapters provide engaging discussions of the methods of accessing, generating, and analyzing social science data, using methods ranging from reflexive historical analysis to critical ethnography. Reflecting

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 25 April 2023

Sociology as a Human Science is a set of foundational, wide-ranging and updated essays from Isaac Ariail Reed. Gathered together for the first time with a new introduction, they articulate