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Methods of Interpretive Sociology
Four Volume Set
Edited by:
- Matthew David - Durham University, UK
September 2010 | 1 672 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Should cultural meaning be understood in terms of psychological motivations and intentions, or in terms of collective codes and belief systems? Max Weber saw the task of the interpretive sociologist as that of reconstructing the objective and subjective rationality of ideal typical actors. Neo-Kantians, phenomenologists, critical interpretivists, pragmatists, symbolic interactionists, ethnomethodologists, cultural anthropologists and others have struggled for over a century over what such an approach entails. The development of an interpretive or verstehen approach to understanding social life draws itself in distinction from approaches that seek causal explanation in terms of variables external to the beliefs of social actors, but this collection attempts to disrupt the comfortable polarities between macro and micro, structure and agency, explanation and description that dog sociology and through which the term interpretive has been quarantined.
VOLUME 1
SECTION ONE: THE CLASSICAL STATEMENTS AND AUTHORS
The Rise of Hermeneutics
Wilhelm Dilthey and Frederic Jameson
Translator's Introduction to Max Weber's Essay on Some Categories of Interpretive Sociology
Edith Graber
Some Categories of Interpretive Sociology
Max Weber
"Anticritical Last Word on The Spirit of Capitalism," by Max Weber
Wallace Davis
"Capitalism" in Recent German Literature: Sombart and Weber
Talcott Parsons
"Capitalism" in Recent German Literature: Sombart and Weber (concluded)
Talcott Parsons
The Role of Ideas in Social Action
Talcott Parsons
The Problem of Sociology
Georg Simmel
The Sociology of Sociability
Georg Simmel and Everett C. Hughes
The Verstehen Thesis and the Foundations of Max Weber's Methodology, History and Theory
Guy Oakes
Rickert's Value Theory and the Foundations of Max Weber's Methodology
Guy Oakes
SECTION TWO: THE INTERPRETERS AND CHALLENGERS OF THE CLASSIC INTERPRETIVIST IDEA OF VERSTEHEN
The Operation Called Vershehen
Theodore Abel
On the Method of Verstehen as the Sole Method of Philosophy
Ernest Nagel
Empirical Science and Max Weber's Verstehende Soziologie
Peter Munch
Max Weber's" Verstehen"
William T. Tucker
Verstehen I and Verstehen II, Theory and Decision
Theodore Abel
"Sense" and "Intention" in Max Weber's Theory of Social Action
Peter Munch
Weber on Action
Stephen P. Turner
Max Weber's 'Interpretive Sociology': A comparison of conception and practice
Mary Fulbrook
Value-Relevance, Scientific Laws, and Ideal Types: The sociological methodology of Max Weber
John Rex
Max Weber on Causal Analysis, Interpretation, and Comparison
Fritz Ringer
Max Weber's Interpretive Sociology, the Understanding of Actions and Motives, and a Weberian View of Man
Thomas Burger
Max Weber, Interpretive Sociology, and the Sense of Historical Science: A Positivistic Conception of Verstehen
Thomas Burder
Causality or Interaction? Simmel, Weber and Interpretive Sociology
K Lichtblau
Weber's Interpretive Sociology and Rational Choice Approach
Zenonas Norkus
Weber's Verstehen and the History of Qualitative Research: The missing link
Jennifer Platt
Weber and Interpretive Sociology in America
Peter Kivisto and William H. Swatos Jr
VOLUME 2
SECTION THREE: THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL CRITICS
The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology
Alfred Schutz
Common-sense and Scientific Interpretation of Human Action
Alfred Schutz Schutz
Choosing Among Projects of Action
Alfred Schutz
Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences
Alfred Schutz
On Phenomenological Sociology
James L. Heap and Phillip A. Roth
Can There Be a Phenomenological Sociology?
Edo Pivcevic
Alfred Schutz and the Austrian School of Economics
Christopher Prendergast
The Rationality of Everyday Behaviour: A rational choice reconstruction of the theory of action by Alfred Schutz
Hartmut Esser
Rationality, Optimality and Choice: Esser's reconstruction of Alfred Schutz's theory of action
Christopher Prendergast
Spontaneous Social Order: Econmics and Sch tzian sociology
Nicolai Juul Foss
Alfred Schutz on a Theory of Motivation
Andrew J. Weigert
From Weber to Parsons and Schutz: The eclipse of history in modern social theory
David Zaret
Existential Phenomenology and the Sociological Tradition
Edward Tiryakian
Jiri Kolaja and Peter Berger Respond to Edward Tiryakian and he Responds Back
Jiri Kolaja and Peter Berger
SECTION FOUR: THE CRITICAL PHENOMENOLOGISTS
The Relation between Psychology and Sociology in the Work of Wilhelm Dilthey
Max Horkheimer
Existentialism: Remarks on Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Etre et le Neant
Herbert Marcuse
Towards a Reconstruction of Historical Materialism
Jurgen Habermas
Some Distinctions in Universal Pragmatics
Jurgen Habermas
The A Priori of Communication and the Foundation of the Humanities
Karlo Otto Apel
Dilthey's Distinction Between "Explanation" and "Understanding" and the Possibility of Its "Mediation"
Karl Otto Apel
The Hermeneutic Dimension of Social Science and its Normative Foundation
Karl Otto Apel
New Developments in Phenomenology in France: The phenomenology of language
Paul Ricoeur
Towards Actionist Sociology, Social Science Information
Alain Touraine
The Voice and the Eye: On the relationship between actors and analysts
Alain Touraine
Rationality in the Slum: An essay on interpretive sociology
Alejandro Portes
Meeting or Mis-Meeting? The Dialogical Challenge to Verstehen
Rob Shields
VOLUME 3
SECTION FIVE: SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
The Mechanism of Social Consciousness
George Herbert Mead
The Social Self
George Herbert Mead
Social Consciousness
Charles Horton Cooley
The Roots of Social Knowledge
Charles Horton Cooley
Science without Concepts
Herbert Blumer
Attitudes and the Social Act
Herbert Blumer
Sociological Analysis and the "Variable"
Herbert Blumer
Sociological Implications of the Thought of George Herbert Mead
Herbert Blumer
Becoming a Marihuana User
Howard Becker
Whose Side Are We On
Howard Becker
Symbols of Class Status
Erving Goffman
The Moral Career of the Mental Patient, Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes
Erving Goffman
Major Trends in Symbolic Interaction Theory in the Last Twenty Five Years
Manfred Kuhn
SECTION SIX: ETHNOMETHODOLOGY
Conditions of Successful Degradation Ceremonies
Harold Garfinkel
Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities
Harold Garfinkel
Evidence for Locally Produced, Naturally Accountable Phenomena of Order, Logic, Reason, Meaning, Method, etc
Harold Garfinkel
Ethnomethodology's Program
Harold Garfinkel
A Note on the Uses of Official Statistics
Aaron Cicourel and John Kitsuse
The Role of Cognitive-Linguistic Concepts in Understanding Everyday Social Interactions
Aaron Cicourel
Text and Discourse
Aaron Cicourel
The Interpenetration of Communicative Contexts: Examples from medical encounters
Aaron Cicourel
John Rawls on Two Concepts of Rules
Aaron Cicourel
Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnomethodology: A proposed synthesis
Norman Denzin
Verstehen, Language and Warrants
James L. Heap
Writing as Social Action, Theory into Practice
James L. Heap
Practical Reason in Depression: a Practice
James L. Heap
VOLUME 4
SECTION SEVEN: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS
"From the Native's Point of View": On the nature of anthropological understanding
Clifford Geertz
Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese cockfight
Clifford Geertz
Common Sense as a Cultural System
Clifford Geertz
The Way We Think Now: Toward an ethnography of modern thought
Clifford Geertz
Understanding a Primitive Society
Peter Winch
Social Science
Peter Winch
Rhetoric and the Ethnographic Genre in Anthropological Research
George Marcus
Ethnographies as Texts
George Marcus and Dick Cushman
On Ethnographic Authority
James Clifford
Cultural Systems, and History: From Synchrony to Transformation
William H. Sewell
SECTION EIGHT: CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATIONS, EXTENSIONS, FUSIONS AND APPLICATIONS
On Interpreting and Interpretation
N. Denzin
Sociological Knowledge: Winch, Marxism, and Verstehen Revisited
Kai Nielsen
Interpretivism and Generalisation
Malcolm Williams
