Overview
- Brings together essays in a cohesive structure to outline a cultural approach to the philosophy of social science
- Consolidates the key debates that have defined 21st-century sociology
- Demonstrates what a cultural perspective provides in answer to questions of concept and method in social science
Part of the book series: Cultural Sociology (CULTSOC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Metatheoretical Frames
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Front Matter
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Interpretive Reconceptualization
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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 King’s Two Bodies, and the co-editor of Social Theory Now and The New Pragmatist Sociology: Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sociology as a Human Science
Book Subtitle: Essays on Interpretation and Causal Pluralism
Authors: Isaac Ariail Reed
Series Title: Cultural Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18357-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18356-0Published: 26 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18359-1Published: 26 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18357-7Published: 25 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-3572
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 264
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Sociological Theory, Social Sciences, general, Social Sciences, general, Social Sciences, general