Hermeneutics and Social Science (Routledge Revivals): Approaches to Understanding - Image 1

Price loading...

Routledge Hermeneutics and Social Science (Routledge Revivals): Approaches to Understanding

Name: Hermeneutics and Social Science (Routledge Revivals): Approaches to Understanding
Brand: Routledge

black & white illustrations

Anthropology & Sociology

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

Originally in 1978, this important work, by one of the leading European social theorists, is arguably the best introduction to the hermeneutic tradition as a whole. It is designed to help students of sociology and philosophy place the problems of understanding social science" in their historical and philosophical context. It does so by presenting the major current in sociological thought as responses to the challenge of hermeneutics. The idea that true knowledge of social life can be attained only if human conduct is seen as meaningful action whose meaning is accordingly grasped has been presented as a discovery of recent sociology. In fact its history is long and its connections plentiful, reaching beyond the boundaries of sociology itself. Yet it is in sociology that the hermeneutic tradition has attracted most interest but most misinterpretation. The debate is in full swing and there is no attempt to offer "correct" solutions - the emphasis instead is upon revealing the strengths and weaknesses of each of the main approaches. However it is Bauman's view that the theory of understanding may achieve valid results only if it treats the problem of understanding as an aspect of the ongoing process of social life"

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Model: black & white illustrations
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0415582725
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 July 2010
Listed Since: 21 December 2009

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Hermeneutics and Social Science (Routledge Revivals): Approaches to Understanding

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Routledge Beyond Bauman: Critical Engagements and Social Theory

Routledge Toward a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices

Understanding Hermeneutics (Understanding Movements in Modern Thought)

The Hermeneutic Imagination (RLE Social Theory): Outline of a Positive Critique of Scientism and Sociology: 29 (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)

The Contemporary Bauman

The Contemporary Bauman

Understanding Social Theory

The Structure of Social Science: A Philosophical Introduction: 6 (Studies in Sociology)

Socialism the Active Utopia (Routledge Revivals)

Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals)

Science In Society: An Introduction to Social Studies of Science (Key Concepts)

Making Sense of Social Theory: A Practical Introduction

Verstehen: The Uses of Understanding in the Social Sciences

Sociology (Routledge Revivals): A guide to problems and literature

Cognitive Relativism and Social Science

Understanding Hermeneutics: 6 (Understanding Movements in Modern Thought)

The Individualized Society

Routledge Arendt Contra Sociology - Social Theory Book

Contemporary Hermeneutics: Hermeneutics as Method, Philosophy and Critique: 2 (Routledge Library Editions: Continental Philosophy)

Reconstitution of social work: towards a moral conception of social work practice

Philosophy of Social Science: The Philosophical Foundations of Social Thought (Traditions in Social Theory)

Social Theory and Language: The Construction of Meaning (Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics)

Hermeneutic Philosophy and the Sociology of Art: An Approach to Some of the Epistemological Problems of the Sociology of Knowledge and the Sociology ... Library Editions: Continental Philosophy)