TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giddens,Anthony
TI  - New rules of sociological method: a positive critique of interpretative sociologies 
SN  - 0091275202
AV  - HM24 .G447
U1  - 301.01 22
PY  - 1976///
CY  - London
PB  - Hutchinson
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Methodology
N1  - 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
ER  -