{"product_id":"sociology-as-a-human-science-essays-on-interpretation-and-causal-pluralism-9783031183560","title":"Sociology as a Human Science: Essays on","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSociology as a Human Science \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e-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.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Introduction – Sociology as a Human Science: An Unfinished Revolution\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Theory and Explanation in Contemporary Social Science: A Critical Appraisal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Part I: The “Realism” Dispute in Sociology, 1998-2018\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Epistemology Contextualized: Social Scientific Knowledge in a Post-Positivist Era\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Justifying Sociological Knowledge: From Realism to Interpretation\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Mechanisms and the Transition to Causal Pluralism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Part II: What is a Mechanism, Anyway?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Formation Stories and Causality in Sociology (with Daniel Hirschman)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Ratio via machina: Three Standards of Mechanistic Explanation in Sociology (with Natalie B. Aviles)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Meaning and Modularity: The Multivalence of “Mechanism” in Sociological Explanation (with Carly R. Knight)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Apologia for Interpretation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Part III: Theory and Interpretive Explanation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Theorizing and the Unsettlement of Communities of Inquiry in the Social Sciences (with Mayer Zald)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 8. What is Interpretive Explanation in Sociohistorical Analysis?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer International Publishing AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49372689924439,"sku":"9783031183560","price":98.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sociology-as-a-human-science-essays-on-interpretation-and-causal-pluralism-9783031183560","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}