New rules of sociological method : a positive critique of interpretative sociologies / Anthony Giddens.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Hutchinson, 1976Description: 192 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0091275202
- 9780091275204
- 0091275210
- 9780091275211
- 301.01 22
- HM24 .G447
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 301.01 GID (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A361083B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-187) and index.
1. 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 -- 2. Agency, act-identifications and communicative intent -- Problems of agency -- Intentions and projects -- The identification of acts -- The rationalization of action -- Meaning and communicative intent -- 3. 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 -- 4. 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.
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