New rules of sociological method : a positive critique of interpretative sociologies /
Giddens, Anthony
New rules of sociological method : a positive critique of interpretative sociologies / Anthony Giddens. - 192 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-187) and index.
Some schools of social theory and methodology -- Existential school: Schutz -- Ethnomethodology -- Post-Wittgensteinian philosophy -- Summary: the significance of interpretative sociologies -- Hermeneutics and critical theory: Gadamer, Apel, Habermas -- Agency, act-identifications and communicative intent -- Problems of agency -- Intentions and projects -- The identification of acts -- The rationalization of action -- Meaning and communicative intent -- The production and reproduction of social life -- Order, power, conflict: Durkheim and Parsons -- Order, power, conflict: Marx -- The production of communication as 'meaningful' -- Moral orders of interaction -- Relations of power in interaction -- Rationalization and reflexivity -- The motivation of action -- The production and reproduction of structure -- Summary -- The form of explanatory accounts -- Positivistic dilemmas -- Later developments: Popper and Kuhn -- Science and non-science -- Relativism and hermeneutic analysis -- The problem of adequacy -- Conclusion: some new rules of sociological method. 1. 2. 3. 4.
0091275202 9780091275204 0091275210 9780091275211
Sociology--Methodology
HM24 / .G447
301.01
New rules of sociological method : a positive critique of interpretative sociologies / Anthony Giddens. - 192 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-187) and index.
Some schools of social theory and methodology -- Existential school: Schutz -- Ethnomethodology -- Post-Wittgensteinian philosophy -- Summary: the significance of interpretative sociologies -- Hermeneutics and critical theory: Gadamer, Apel, Habermas -- Agency, act-identifications and communicative intent -- Problems of agency -- Intentions and projects -- The identification of acts -- The rationalization of action -- Meaning and communicative intent -- The production and reproduction of social life -- Order, power, conflict: Durkheim and Parsons -- Order, power, conflict: Marx -- The production of communication as 'meaningful' -- Moral orders of interaction -- Relations of power in interaction -- Rationalization and reflexivity -- The motivation of action -- The production and reproduction of structure -- Summary -- The form of explanatory accounts -- Positivistic dilemmas -- Later developments: Popper and Kuhn -- Science and non-science -- Relativism and hermeneutic analysis -- The problem of adequacy -- Conclusion: some new rules of sociological method. 1. 2. 3. 4.
0091275202 9780091275204 0091275210 9780091275211
Sociology--Methodology
HM24 / .G447
301.01