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Title
Sociology as a human science : essays on interpretation and causal pluralism / Isaac Ariail Reed.
Uniform Title
Essays. Selections
ISBN
9783031183577 electronic book
3031183576 electronic book
3031183568
9783031183560
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-18357-7 doi
Call Number
HM585 .R44 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
301
Summary
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 a distinct perspective on concept and method in social science. Reed writes about realism and positivism, postmodernism and empiricism, mechanisms and causality, and power and history, developing thereby an understanding of the key debates out of which 21st-century sociology has developed. Carefully considering all manner of arguments in metatheory and epistemology and moving towards a program of interpretive explanation focused on culture and power, Reed places sociology at the center of debates about knowledge production across the humanities and social sciences. His reconstructive approach, positioned after the posts (poststructuralism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism) provides a way for interpretive sociology to provide analytically sound, theoretically extensive, and empirically rich understandings of social life. Isaac Ariail Reed is Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of Political and Social Thought in the Department of Sociology and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, USA. He is the author of Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences and Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the Kings Two Bodies, and the co-editor of Social Theory Now and The New Pragmatist Sociology: Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy.
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Series
Cultural sociology.
Chapter 1. Introduction Sociology as a Human Science: An Unfinished Revolution
Chapter 2. Epistemology Contextualized: Social Scientific Knowledge in a Post-Positivist Era
Chapter 3. Justifying Sociological Knowledge: From Realism to Interpretation
Chapter 4. Formation Stories and Causality in Sociology (with Daniel Hirschman)
Chapter 5. Ratio via machina: Three Standards of Mechanistic Explanation in Sociology (with Natalie B. Aviles)
Chapter 6. Meaning and Modularity: The Multivalence of Mechanism in Sociological Explanation (with Carly R. Knight)
Chapter 7. Theorizing and the Unsettlement of Communities of Inquiry in the Social Sciences (with Mayer Zald)
Chapter 8. What is Interpretive Explanation in Sociohistorical Analysis?.
