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Title Interpretive social science : a reader / edited by Paul Rabinow and William M. Sullivan
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1979]
©1979

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Description viii, 367 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction The interpretive turn : emergence of an approach / Paul Rabinow and William M. Sullivan -- Part one : The primacy of meaning : culture as context -- Interpretation and the sciences of man / Charles Taylor -- The model of the text : meaningful action considered as a text / Paul Ricoeur -- The problem of historical consciousness / H.G. Gadamer -- Part two : Context as world interpretations -- The search for paradigms as a hinderance to understanding / Albert O. Hirschman -- Deep play : notes on the Balinese cockfight From the natives point of view : on the nature of anthropological understanding / Clifford Geertz -- Normal circumstances, literal language, direct speech acts, the ordinary, the everyday, the obvious, what goes without saying, and other special cases / Stanley Fish -- The relations between history and history of science / Thomas S. Kuhn -- Psychoanalysis and the movement of contemporary culture / Paul Ricoeur -- New religious consciousness and the crisis in modernity / Robert N. Bellah
Analysis Interpretative sociology
Social sciences -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes 'This book grew out of ... discussions during the course of a National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar ... on "Tradition and Interpretation : the Sociology of Culture" held at the University of California at Berkeley during the academic year 1976/77' - Preface
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 365-367
Subject Social sciences.
Sociology.
Author Rabinow, Paul.
Sullivan, William M.
LC no. 77085743
ISBN 0520035887