Interpretive Social Science: An Anti-Naturalist Approach 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 9780192569370
• ISBN-13: 0192569376
• Author: Mark Bevir; Jason Blakely

In this book Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely set out to make the most comprehensive case yet for an ‘interpretive’ or hermeneutic approach to the social sciences. Interpretive approaches are a major growth area in the social sciences today. This is because they offer a full-blown alternative to the behavioralism, institutionalism, rational choice, and other quasi-scientific approaches that dominate the study of human behavior. In addition to presenting a systematic case for interpretivism and a critique of scientism, Bevir and Blakely also propose their own uniquely ‘anti-naturalist ‘notion of an interpretive approach. This anti-naturalist framework encompasses the insights of philosophers ranging from Michel Foucault and Hans-Georg Gadamer to Charles Taylor and Ludwig Wittgenstein, while also resolving dilemmas that have plagued rival philosophical defenses of interpretivism. In addition, working social scientists are given detailed discussions of a distinctly interpretive approach to methods and empirical research.

Table contents:

1 Introduction

2 Philosophical roots

3 Philosophical debates

4 Concept formation

5 Methods

6 Synchronic empirical research

7 Historical sociologies

8 Ethics and democracy

9 Public policy

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